Stress, Resilience, and Healthy Relationships with Food and Family

This innovative book applies theories of health-related behavior change and habit formation across the lifespan, with particular emphasis on the contribution of resilience to healthy living. It examines the ways in which adversity and resilience contribute to the formation and maintenance of health-related change across family generations. The book provides a multidisciplinary approach to studying the complexities of individual, parental, and family decision making in building healthy habits, seeking information, and making behavior change in the context of lived risk and resilience.

Key areas of coverage include:

• The contribution of adverse and protective childhood experiences, including historical and generational trauma, to our adult health behaviors.
• Multidimensional considerations for the development of healthy eating habits and the prevention of obesity early in the lifespan.
• The development of disordered eating within the context of historically marginalized groups.

Stress, Resilience, and Healthy Relationships with Food and Family is an essential resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, professionals, and policymakers in the fields of developmental, pediatric, and health psychology, parenting and family studies, infant mental health, nutrition, and all interrelated disciplines.