Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Families, Parents, and Children Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 Series

With specially commissioned introductions from international experts, the Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 series draws together previously published chapters on key themes in psychological science that engage with people?s unprecedented experience of the pandemic.

This volume collects chapters that address prominent issues and challenges presented by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic to families, parents, and children. A new introduction from Marc H. Bornstein reviews how disasters are known to impact families, parents, and children and explores traditional and novel responsibilities of parents and their effects on child growth and development. It examines parenting at this time, detailing consequences for home life and economies that the pandemic has triggered; considers child discipline and abuse during the pandemic; and makes recommendations that will support families in terms of multilevel interventions at family, community, and national and international levels. The selected chapters elucidate key themes including children?s worry, stress and parenting, positive parenting programs, barriers which constrain population-level impact of prevention programs, and the importance of culturally adapting evidence-based family intervention programs.

Featuring theory and research on key topics germane to the global pandemic, the Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 seriesoffers thought-provoking reading for professionals, students, academics, policy makers, and parents concerned with the psychological consequences of COVID-19 for individuals, families, and society.

Introduction: The SARS CoV-2 Pandemic: issues for families, parents, and children

Marc H. Bornstein

Selected Chapters

1 Children’s worry and development

Charlotte Wilson

From Understanding Children’s Worry

2 Stress and parenting

Keith A. Crnic and Shayna S. Coburn

From Handbook of Parenting: Volume 4: Social Conditions and Applied Parenting

3 Youth-adult relationships as assets for youth: promoting positive development in stressful times

Stephen F. Hamilton, Mary Agnes Hamilton, David L. Dubois, M. Loreto Martínez, Patricio Cumsille, Bernadine Brady, Pat Dolan, Susana Núñez Rodriguez, and Deborah E. Sellers

From Positive Youth Development in Global Contexts of Social and Economic Change

4 Employment and parenting

Wen-Jui Han, Nina Philipsen Hetzner, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

From Handbook of Parenting: Volume 4: Social Conditions and Applied Parenting

5 The Triple P – positive parenting program: a community-wide approach to parenting and family support

Matthew R. Sanders, Karen M. T. Turner, and Jenna McWilliam

From Family Based Prevention Programs for Children and Adolescents

6 Thinking systematically for enduring family change

Gregory M. Fosco, Brian Bumbarger, and Katharine T. Bamberger

From Family Based Prevention Programs for Children and Adolescents

7 Cultural and gender adaptations of evidence-based family interventions

Karol L. Kumpfer, Catia Magalhães, Jing Xie, and Sheetal Kanse

From Family Based Prevention Programs for Children and Adolescents

Marc H. Bornstein holds positions at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and UNICEF. He is President Emeritus of the Society for Research in Child Development, Editor Emeritus of Child Development, and founding Editor of Parenting: Science and Practice. Bornstein has written and edited several books, including the five-volume Handbook of Parenting for Routledge.