Parents, Children, and Adolescents: Interactive Relationships and Development in Context

ISBN-13: 9780789060341 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 418 str.

Anne-Marie Ambert

Opis

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 authority
  
  Complete 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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O autorze

Anne Marie Ambert (Author)