For too long the adverse impacts of parental incarceration have remained in the shadows. This book and its companion workbook Children of Imprisoned Parents A Workbook for Holistic Caregiver and Child WellBeing ISBN 9781476687179 illuminate the hidden challenges helping caregivers to understand childrens stressresponse systems and enabling them to recognize how anxiety and grief may manifest in a childs daily behaviors. How do you recover from the pain of telling children mistruths about parental arrest and imprisonment How does parental incarceration affect child development and the bodybrain connection Are children of incarcerated parents prone to incarceration themselves With sensitivity and clarity the authors address a range of questions including such tough topics as adverse childhood experiences ACEs trauma childhood suicide ideation and grief and loss.