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Parents, Children, and Adolescents - Interactive Relationships and Development in Context (Paperback)
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Parents, Children, and Adolescents - Interactive Relationships and Development in Context (Paperback)
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Parents, Children, and Adolescents presents an integrative
perspective of the parent-child relationship within several
contexts. You can expand your empirical and theoretical knowledge
of the parent-child relationship and child development through the
book s unusually holistic, theoretical perspective that integrates
three main frameworks: interactional theories on parents, children,
and development; contextual (ecological) models; and behavior
genetics.This insightful book s empirical scope is broader than
that of most books in that it considers the parent-child
relationship throughout the life course as well as within a great
variety of contexts, including interactions with sibling and peers,
at school, in their neighborhoods, and with professionals. You ll
gain immeasurable knowledge about: parents'child-rearing styles and
how they are affected by environmental variables the interaction
between parents and children, and between their personalities
behavior genetics as one of the explanatory frameworks for the role
of genetics and environment negative child outcomes--emotional
problems, conduct disorders, and delinquency poverty and other
stressors affecting parents and children problematic-abusive,
emotionally disturbed, alcoholic parents siblings and peers as
contexts for the parent-child dyad the effect of the school system
on the family, with a focus on minority families family
structure--divorce, remarriage, and families headed by
never-married mothers adolescent mothers and their own mothers the
psychogenetic limitations on parental influence and cultural
roadblocks to parental moral authorityComplete with an Instructor s
Manual, Parents, Children, and Adolescents is ideal for advanced
undergraduate and graduate classes in family studies and human
development, sociology of the family, interdisciplinary
developmental psychology, and social work classes that need a
thorough perspective on the parent-child relationship.
Professionals and scholars in these fields seeking an
interdisciplinary framework as well as research suggestions and
incisive critiques of traditional perspectives will also find this
innovative book a valuable addition to their reading lists.
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