In this groundbreaking exploration of the brain mechanisms behind healthy caregiving, attachment specialist Daniel A. Hughes and veteran clinical psychologist Jonathan Baylin guide readers through the intricate web of neuronal processes, hormones, and chemicals that driveāand sometimes thwartāour caregiving impulses, uncovering the mysteries of the parental brain.
The biggest challenge to parents, Hughes and Baylin explain, is learning how to regulate emotions that ariseāfeeling them deeply and honestly while staying grounded and aware enough to preserve the parentāchild relationship. Stress, which can lead to āblockedā or dysfunctional care, can impede our brainās inherent caregiving processes and negatively impact our ability to do this. While the parentāchild relationship can generate deep empathy and the intense motivation to care for our children, it can also trigger self-defensive feelings rooted in our early attachment relationships, and give rise to āunparentalā impulses.
Learning to be a āgood parentā is contingent upon learning how to manage this stress, understand its brain-based cues, and respond in a way that will set the brain back on track. To this end, Hughes and Baylin define five major āsystemsā of caregiving as theyāre linked to the brain, explaining how they operate when parenting is strong and what happens when good parenting is compromised or āblocked.ā With this awareness, we learn how to approach kids with renewed playfulness, acceptance, curiosity, and empathy, re-regulate our caregiving systems, foster deeper social engagement, and facilitate our childrenās development.
Infused with clinical insight, illuminating case examples, and helpful illustrations, Brain-Based Parenting brings the science of caregiving to light for the first time. Far from just managing our childrenās behavior, we can develop our āparenting brains,ā and with a better understanding of the neurobiological roots of our feelings and our own attachment histories, we can transform a fraught parent-child relationship into an open, regulated, and loving one.
This book title, Brain-Based Parenting (The Neuroscience of Caregiving for Healthy Attachment), ISBN: 9780393707281, by Daniel A. Hughes, Jonathan Baylin, Daniel J. Siegel, published by W. W. Norton & Company (April 23, 2012) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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