How Caregiving Affects Development: Psychological Implications For Child, Adolescent, And Adult Caregivers

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As recent advances in medicine contribute to people living longer and living with chronic illness in the home, the role of the family caregiver has become more common. Furthermore, due to varying family structures and living situations it is not always the parent or adult child who takes on the caregiver role. The traditional role of the adult caregiver increasingly falls on the shoulders of children, adolescents, and emerging adults. Also, in cases where parents are unable to take care of their children, grandparents take on the role of adult caregiver for their grandchildren. A caregiving role at any point in life may affect a person's development and add stressors, but also may create rewards that influence the caregiver's identity and well-being. How Caregiving Affects Development: Psychological Implications for Child, Adolescent, and Adult Caregivers examines these effects using a lifespan development framework. Each chapter presents theory and empirical research on caregiving from a different phase in the lifespan including childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, and young, middle, and older adulthood. Within the context of the caregiver's life the chapter authors examine how the role of caregiver affects their development.

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How Caregiving Affects Development PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS/or CHILD, A D O L E S C E N T , anc? ADULT CAREGIVERS E D I T E D BY K i m Shifren A M E R I C A N P S Y C H O L O G I C A L W A S H I N G T O N , A S S O C I A T I O N DC Copyright © 2009 by the American Psychological Association. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, the process of scanning and digitization, or stored in a database or retrieval system, vnthout the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by American Psychological Association 750 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 www.apa.org To order APA Order Department P.O. Box 92984 Washington, DC 20090-2984 Tel: (800) 374-2721; Direct: (202) 336-5510 Fax: (202) 336-5502; TDD/TTY: (202) 336-6123 Online: www.apa.org/books/ E-mail: [email protected] In the U.K., Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, copies may be ordered from American Psychological Association 3 Henrietta Street Covent Garden, London WC2E8LU England Typeset in Minion by Circle Graphics, Columbia, MD Printer: Edwards Brothers, Inc., Ann Arbor, Ml Cover Designer: Berg Design, Albany, NY Technical/Production Editor: Harriet Kaplan The opinions and statements published are the responsibility of the authors, and such opinions and statements do not necessarily represent the policies of the American Psychological Association. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data How caregiving affects development: psychological implications for child, adolescent, and adult caregivers / edited by Kim Shifren. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-4338-0393-2 ISBN-10:1-4338-0393-3 1. Developmental psychology. 2. Caregivers. I. Shifren, Kim. BF713.H69 2009 155.9'24—dc22 2008010791 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A CIP record is available from the British Library. Printed in the United States ofAmerica First Edition Contents Contributors vii Introduction: A Life Span Perspective on Caregivers Kim Shifren 3 1 Children as Caregivers to Their 111 Parents With AIDS Laurie }. Bauman, Ellen Johnson Silver, Rebecca Berman, and Ivy Gamble 37 2 Adolescent Caregivers Connie Siskowski 65 3 Emerging and Young Adultho