Latino youth are exposed to a number of stressors that can overwhelm their coping abilities. Learning and strengthening coping skills from an early age is thus critical for this population. Parents play a significant role in their children's coping; consequently, culturally appropriate programs that help Latino parents help their children cope with stress are needed. A multi-site randomized controlled trial (RCT) with pre- and post-assessments was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of a program to help Latina mothers help their children cope with stress. Mothers in the intervention condition participated in a seven-week program that focused on improving mothers' abilities to help their children cope, teaching mothers positive scaffolding techniques to help their children manage stressful situations, and enhancing emotion coaching skills. Consistent with the hypotheses, the results indicated that there were significant increases in mothers' self-efficacy in helping their children cope with stress, in the number of strategies mothers generated to help their children cope, and in developing more positive scaffolding behaviors as well as having improved emotion coaching abilities from pre- to post-test. These findings imply that Latina mothers are receptive to and benefit from culturally sensitive parenting programs that focus on improving their skills so that they can better assist their children in coping with stress. This population can greatly benefit from evidence-based programs such as the one in this study that empower parents to take an active role in ensuring their children's healthy socioemotional development.

Latino children and youth from low-income backgrounds express more stress, depression, anxiety, and delinquency than white, European American children and youth. Children must learn strategies to deal with and cope with stress in their lives. Parents play an essential role in children's lives and in their ability to help their children deal with stressful situations. There is a need for programs that focus on Latino parents to help parents find ways that they can help their children cope with stress. A multi-site randomized controlled trial with pre, post, and 3-month follow-up assessments was conducted to evaluate the impact of a program to help Latina mothers help their children cope with stress. Mothers in the intervention group participated in a seven-week program to learn to help their children cope with stress and deal with difficult situations. The program focused on assisting mothers to learn appropriate strategies to manage controllable and uncontrollable stressors, to recognize when children are stressed, to coach their children on coping, to understand difficult emotions, and to improve communication with their children. MANCOVAs were used to examine the impact of the program on: 1) mothers' emotion coaching, parental self-efficacy, coping knowledge, and scaffolding of their children's responses to stress; and 2) children's coping with difficult situations and behavior problems. Mothers in the intervention group, compared to the controls, showed significant increases from pre-test to post-test in emotion coaching, in their knowledge of strategies to help their children cope, in maternal scaffolding strategies to effectively support child coping, and in their self-efficacy regarding helping their children cope with stress. Intervention mothers also showed significant decreases in their ratings of children's behavior problems. Children whose mothers had taken the program reported less emotional problems and increased their use of primary control engagement in one of two situations studied. The findings show that the program had an impact on mother's ability to help their children cope with stressful situations and to empower them to have more communication about feelings with their children. Latina mothers can greatly benefit from evidence-based programs that help them learn strategies to improve their children's socioemotional development.

This book is full of creative ideas for use with children who have difficulty in coping with change, stress and normal levels of anxiety. Supported by a comprehensive but accessible theory section, the practical exercises are a simple and fun way of helping children to learn healthy stress management strategies. Deborah Plummer offers over 100 activities and games specifically aimed at helping children to build emotional resilience. With a mixture of short, snappy activities and longer guided visualizations, these exercises are suitable for use with individuals or groups, and many are appropriate for use with children with complex needs or speech and language difficulties. This unique photocopiable activity book will be an invaluable resource for parents, carers, teachers, therapists and anyone looking for creative, enjoyable ways of helping children to cope with change, stress and anxiety. It is primarily designed for use with individuals and groups of children aged 7-11, but the ideas can easily be adapted for both older and younger children and children with learning difficulties.

From two leading child and adolescent mental health experts comes a guide for the parents of every college and college-bound student who want to know what’s normal mental health and behavior, what’s not, and how to intervene before it’s too late. “The title says it all...Chock full of practical tools, resources and the wisdom that comes with years of experience, The Stressed Years of their Lives is destined to become a well-thumbed handbook to help families cope with this modern age of anxiety.” — Brigid Schulte, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author of Overwhelmed and director of the Better Life Lab at New America All parenting is in preparation for letting go. However, the paradox of parenting is that the more we learn about late adolescent development and risk, the more frightened we become for our children, and the more we want to stay involved in their lives. This becomes particularly necessary, and also particularly challenging, in mid- to late adolescence, the years just before and after students head off to college. These years coincide with the emergence of many mood disorders and other mental health issues. When family psychologist Dr. B. Janet Hibbs's own son came home from college mired in a dangerous depressive spiral, she turned to Dr. Anthony Rostain. Dr. Rostain has a secret superpower: he understands the arcane rules governing privacy and parental involvement in students’ mental health care on college campuses, the same rules that sometimes hold parents back from getting good care for their kids. Now, these two doctors have combined their expertise to corral the crucial emotional skills and lessons that every parent and student can learn for a successful launch from home to college.

The number and intensity of childhood stresses have dramatically increased in the past decade, forcing children to grow up faster. This book reasserts the value of childhood, and provides the information needed to help children deal with life's problems.

The ultimate must-read handbook for the modern mother: a practical, and positive tool to help free women from the debilitating notion of being the "perfect mom," filled with funny and all too relatable true-life stories and realistic suggestions to stop the burnout cycle, and protect our kids from the damage burnout can cause. Moms, do you feel tired? Overwhelmed? Have you continually put off the things you need to do for you? Do you feel like it’s all worth it because your kids are happy? Are you "over" being a mother? If you answered yes to these questions, you’re not alone. Parents today want to create the ideal childhood for their children. Women strive to be the picture-perfect Pinterest mother that looks amazing, hosts the best birthday parties in town, posts the most "liked" photos, and serves delicious, nutritious home-cooked meals in her neat, organized home after ferrying the kids to school and a host of extracurricular activities on time. This drive, while noble, can also be destructive, causing stress and anxiety that leads to "mommy burnout." Psychologist and family counselor Dr. Sheryl Ziegler is well-versed in the stress that moms face, and the burden of guilt they carry because they often feel like they aren’t doing enough for their kids’ happiness. A mother of three herself, Dr. Z—as she’s affectionately known by her many patients—recognizes and understands that modern moms are all too often plagued by exhaustion, failure, isolation, self-doubt, and a general lack of self-love, and their families are also feeling the effects, too. Over the last nineteen years working with families and children, Dr. Z has devised a prescriptive program for addressing "mommy burnout"—teaching moms that they can learn to re-energize themselves and still feel good about their families and their lives. In this warm and empathetic guide, she examines this modern epidemic among mothers who put their children’s happiness above their own, and offers empowering, proven solutions for alleviating this condition, saving marriages and keeping kids happy in the process.