Family and Peer Relationships of Children and Adolescents with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

This book examines family and peer relationships of children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders (ND), including ADHD, learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, and intellectual developmental disorder (intellectual disabilities). It uses a transdiagnostic approach to describe how the difficulties ND youth have with self-regulation, adaptive skills, academic achievement, and social skills contribute to parenting stress, parent mental health challenges, and problematic family and peer relationships. The book reviews research detailing that youth with ND have challenges with mental health and are differentially susceptible to adverse environmental factors, such as negative parenting, peer rejection and victimization, stigma, and COVID-19. It offers innovative approaches for conducting assessments of the family system and peer environment that are based on risk and resilience research.

Key areas of coverage include:

• Predictors of parenting stress and parent mental health, including their children s behaviors, parents coping strategies and social supports, culture, and stigma.
• Family and peer relationships as risk and protective factors for mental health and well-being of ND youth.
• Peer status, friendship, bullying, and romantic relationships of ND children and adolescents.
• Risk and protective factors associated with peer relations such as inclusive school environments and teacher attitudes and behaviors.

Family and Peer Relationships of Children and Adolescents with Neurodevelopmental Disorders is an essential reference for researchers, professors, graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and all related professionals in developmental, clinical child, and school psychology, neuropsychology, counseling, social work, special education, developmental disabilities, behavior therapy, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, pediatrics, and child and adolescent psychiatry.

Chapter 1. Introduction to Family Relationships of Children and Adolescents with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. -
Part 1. Parenting and Family Relationships: The Ripple Effect of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
. - Chapter 2. Family Relationships of Children and Adolescents with Specific Neurodevelopmental Disorders. - Chapter 3. Parenting and Family Relationships of Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities. - Chapter 4. Parenting and Family Relationships of Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder. - Chapter 5. Parenting and Family Relationships of Children and Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. - Chapter 6. Parenting and Family Relationships of Children and Adolescents with Learning Disabilities. - Chapter 7. Parenting and Family Relationships of Children and Adolescents with Tic Disorders. - Chapter 8. Parent, Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being. - Chapter 9. Interventions that Foster Positive Parenting and Family Relationships. -
Part 2. Peer Relationships: The 4th R
. - Chapter 10. Peer Relationships of Children and Adolescents with Specific Neurodevelopmental Disorders. - Chapter 11. Peer Relationships of Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities. - Chapter 12. Peer Relationships of Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder. - Chapter 13. Peer Relationships of Children and Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. - Chapter 14. Peer Relationships of Children and Adolescents with Learning Disabilities. - Chapter 15. Peer Relationships of Children and Adolescents with Tic Disorders. - Chapter 16. Peer Relationships, Mental Health and Well-Being. Chapter 17. Interventions That Foster Positive Peer Relationships. - Chapter 18. Impact of COVID-19 on Family and Peer Relationships. - Chapter 19. Future Directions in Research and Practice.