Best Start for Positive Parenting

Karen Akwuobi Dr.

Description

This book presents a unique framework and literature for parenting philosophy: clinical psychology practice. Parents/guardians need to secure resources, articulate a vision of what childhood should be about in anticipation to provide best possible care for a child. One of the major things missing in the psychology of parenting has been a comprehensive, fundamental parental framework guide, pre-requisite parental academic foundation. Lack of introducing a preliminary parental educational guide has left the gap for parental vulnerability; no guide on what to expect, no clear direction on where to go for parenting help. The Best Start for Positive Parenting: Clinical Psychology is for parents, anticipating parents, students (Junior and senior circle and college), students studying clinical psychology, students in medical and care, schools, colleges and all works of life. This book is an intervention guide that mirrors responsibility for all issues relating to a framework for parenting philosophy: knowing the child, establishing mutual respect and a line of open communication.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Clinical psychology

Informations

• Publié par: Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd
• Date de parution: 31 janvier 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781398448261
• Langue: English

Extrait

The Best Start for Positive Parenting
Clinical Psychology
Dr. Karen Akwuobi
Austin Macauley Publishers
2022-01-31
The Best Start for Positive Parenting About the Author Dedication Copyright Information © Acknowledgement Background Objective Introduction Section 1 Parenting Functioning Section 2 Clinical Psychology Features Statistic Flow: Parenting Demand and Screen What Is Parenting? Children First Level of Adaptive Behaviour and Psychological Impact of Bad Parenting and Clinical Practice (A) Positive Parenting Techniques Layout and Its Correlated Clinical Practice Section 3 The Clinical Psychology Approach Section 4 Conclusion Recommendations Parenting Philosophy Bibliography
About the Author
Dr. Karen Akwuobi is a clinical psychologist and CBT Expert, a mother of three children, an author, and an enthusiastic educator passionately committed to child and youth development. She has been working with families, children and youth for years as a consultant psychologist; on child and young person psycho-intelligence, on positive parenting and how to revolutionize children and youth education in deprived areas. She also lectures on webinars, has published articles, has developed Psychometric Instruments for Assessment of Parental Functioning (PIAPF), a speaker on YouTube: most recent being; ‘A Child Nurtured in Early Age’. She is also a director in one of the health and social care companies both in Ireland and UK. She holds a degree in Accounting and Finance, Masters in Human Resources Management, a Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)Expert.
Dedication
This book is dedicated to the memory of my late mum, Alice, who worked for homeless children and the vulnerable parents.
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Acknowledgement
I would like to thank my supervisor, Dr Edward Lambert for his expert advice, encouragement and support, my friends and all those who have indirectly guided and helped for preparation for this book.
The completion of this book could not have been accomplished without the support of my husband and my children. Thank you for allowing me time away from our space to write, and your deliberate actions when the time got rough are much appreciated.
I express my profound thanks and supreme gratitude to God.
Background
Because of the arduous number of immigrants arriving in Ireland in the last two decades; there has been an overwhelming structure to integrate and or maintain positive parenting in our society. Irish Examiner shows that while 90,300 persons immigrated to Ireland in the year 2018 (31.5% Irish nationals). The rapid increase has overwhelmed the parenting structure in Ireland. This dynamic paradigm has overwhelmed the parenting structure, disintegrated family functions, and elicited dysfunctional families forcing vast amounts of children and teenagers to live apart from their parents.
Tusla and the New Communities Partnership (NCP) show that the 6,300 children are in Ireland’s care system and at the heart of that difficulty is defining what parenting is and what it means in Ireland, specifically.
The Department of Housing showed 8,699 people homeless. The number of homeless families has increased by 87% since June 2015. Almost one-third of the people in emergency accommodation are children. However, this number does not include ‘hidden homelessness’ which refers to people who are living in squats or ‘sofa surfing’ with friends. The national figure also does not include people who are sleeping rough and in 2019 the official rough sleeping count confirmed 92 people sleeping rough in Dublin, with an additional number in the Night Café, without a place to sleep.
According to the Child and Family Agencies, there are 6,006 children in state care. Catherine Bond, the chief executive of the Irish Foster Care Association, says some children in care are not getting appropriate care. Of all the children in state care across the country, 3,853 are aged between six and fifteen.
Dr Carol Coulter shows that there are many challenges around mental health and cultural identity in particular. The challenges of integrating migrant children in Ireland’s care, there are high numbers of migrant children in care, within; a high number of children are from West Africa.
In 2015 The Irish Times showed that approximately 30% of children in care cases come from minorities. Children from ethnic minorities, including Travellers, are about seven times more likely to be subject to care proceedings than other white Irish children.
Dr Carol Coulter’s report from December 2012 to July 2015 and captures 1,272 childcare cases.
The Irish Times described the most striking recent report has been about the observations of Dr Peter Keenan, Accident & Emergency Consultant in Temple Street Children’s Hospital. Dr Keenan described the marked increase in child physical abuse and neglect over the past couple of years. There has been such an increase in these kinds of child abuse because non-priority has been given often means not receiving any attention.
According to a follow-up interview on RTE, there are about 500 children on waiting lists for a social worker. It would seem that the child-protection services are having great difficulty in coping. Parents who lack the capacity to care for their children will frequently be left to struggle alone by the State agencies.
The reality of life for an increasing number of Irish children is that the parents themselves are very vulnerable and are often not in a position to provide the care and security so badly needed by their children.
Whatever mitigating circumstances might have existed in the past in respect of the lack of government resources, there are no such valid excuses now.
Dr Keenan has thrown down a challenge to Irish society, especially its political leaders, to tackle this urgent and worsening problem.
Objective Introduction
Lack of positive parenting and not having a clear direction on where to go for parenting help has driven children and youth to leave home before their readiness to leave, live in homes with parents with no literal parent figure present. This increases the number of dysfunctional families, increases concealed homelessness and sleeping rough in young adults which subsequently increases the number of adolescents and children in state care; foster care, emergency accommodation, homeless and hidden homelessness, and sleeping rough. Managing this flow and developing a framework to support a positive parenting style has been a major shortcoming in our society today:
The Irish Times and interview on RTE, Dr Peter Keenan enumerated that “child-protection services are having great difficulty in coping, State agencies lack resources, Parents who lack the capacity to care for their children are being left to struggle alone, often there is no serious intervention until a family is in real crisis and increasing numbers of Irish people are being left to flounder. There has been an increase in child physical abuse and neglect.”
This book is an intervention guide that mirrors responsibility for all issues relating to parenting. Parents need to secure resources, articulate a vision of what childhood should be about, and how parents can be helped in providing the best possible care for their children.
It will examine child’s psychological pathology, parenting philosophy and a head of positive parenting subsequently access to a framework for parental assessment.
The Best Start for Positive Parenting: Clinical Psychology.
Section 1