Children of Incarcerated Parents
Today the majority of adults incarcerated in the United States are parents, affecting an estimated 1.5 million children nationwide. The arrest and imprisonment of a parent is a significant trauma for children, and they often react by demonstrating a pattern of aggression, anxiety, hyperarousal, depression, attention disorders, developmental regression, and "survival guilt." These children of offenders can display behaviors similar to those of children with a parent who has committed suicide or is murdered, as well as behaviors stemming from other forms of parental loss. Children of criminal, jailed, or imprisoned parents have...
Download or read Children of Incarcerated Parents in PDF formats. You may also find other subjects related with Children of Incarcerated Parents.
- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 336 pages
- ISBN: 9780029110423 / 29110424
SkXmoqHd38b.pdf