The Journal represents the crossroads and a baseline of multidisciplinary work informing secure attachment, healthy development, responsive care, and positive discipline — a compendium following API's Eight Principles of Parenting
for optimal child development and healthy communities.
Transforming clinical practice toward the promotion of factors that
support optimal child development allows us to work collaboratively with families and communities and increases opportunities to align health care with other early childhood programs and policies.
Development during the prenatal period, infancy and childhood is known to influence lifelong health, 1 — 4 and the link between early - life health and adult outcomes is strong and economically meaningful.5 Promotion
of optimal child development and well - being comprises early detection and treatment of whole families, and it can potentially prevent the development of behavioural and emotional problems in children and adolescents.6
In the context of family conflict, Grych and Fincham (1990) offered three potential pathways through which a difficult temperament contributes to
less optimal child development for children exposed to high levels of family conflict.
Clinical practice is moving toward the promotion of factors that
support optimal child development and broadening its focus to include the healthy outcomes that arise from positive childhood experiences.
Home visiting can be an effective strategy for strengthening parental capacity and
promoting optimal child development for a wide range of families, many of whom face significant challenges in other aspects of their lives.
Mainstream thinking in our corner of the world has not yet evolved to embrace the importance of a solid foundation of peaceful attachment for
optimal child development or to understand the damage caused to children whose emotional needs are trivialized.
In RE Larzelere, AS Morris and AH Harrist (eds): Authoritative parenting: Synthesizing nurturance and discipline for
optimal child development.
Such services can take many different forms depending on the strengths and needs of the family, but their overarching goal is to help parents enhance skills and resolve problems to promote
optimal child development.
The results don't pinpoint the optimal number of toys for
optimal child development, Metz says.
Every aspect of Curiosityville — from the activity and game development to the sound effects, animation, and archetypal characters — is built for
optimal child development and learning.
Strengthening parental capacity and promoting
optimal child development are central to the early home visiting mission.
In Schulz, Marc S. (Ed); Pruett, Marsha Kline (Ed); Kerig, Patricia K. (Ed); Parke, Ross D. (Ed), Strengthening couple relationships for
optimal child development: Lessons from research and intervention.
Twenty studies were found that address the provision of anticipatory guidance relevant to promoting
optimal child development (Table 2).
Such services can take many different forms depending on the strengths and needs of the family, but their overarching goal is to help parents enhance skills and resolve problems to promote
optimal child development.
Newly released study compilation underscores parenting practices for
optimal child development and healthy attachment
The Journal represents the crossroads and a baseline of multidisciplinary work informing secure attachment, healthy development, responsive care, and positive discipline — a compendium following API's Eight Principles of Parenting for
optimal child development and healthy communities.
In RE Larzelere, AS Morris and AH Harrist (eds): Authoritative parenting: Synthesizing nurturance and discipline for
optimal child development.