Interaction between parents and children / Laura Stafford, Cherie L. Bayer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stafford, Laura.

Contributor:

Bayer, Cherie L.

Series:

Sage series in interpersonal communication ; v. 13.

Sage series in interpersonal communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parent and child.

Interpersonal communication.

Physical Description:

xviii, 213 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1993]

Summary:

Extensive and far-reaching, Interaction Between Parents and Children offers an interdisciplinary integration of recent Western research on parent-child interaction in the "traditional family structure." This interdisciplinary approach illustrates the rich and often surprising amount of convergence among disciplines as well as the methods to breach methodological boundaries. To answer the question "who affects whom" in the parent-child dyad and family system, this material is approached utilizing three different views of Peterson and Rollins' framework: unidirectional, bidirectional, and systemic. Child variables such as self-control, self-concept, and communication competencies--language and communication--are also examined in this concise and readable volume. Stafford and Bayer close with a recap of the three different views within the framework and identify concerns about and limitations of the present literature.

Contents:

1. Continuing Controversies About Children and Their Development Relevant to Parent-Child Interaction 1

2. Theoretical Orientations 18

3. What the Child Becomes: Three Selected Variables 33

4. The Child as Clay: An Overview of the Unidirectional Approach 51

5. The Child as Clay: The Unidirectional Approach to Three Variables 66

6. Through the Looking Glass: An Overview of Bidirectional Approaches 91

7. Through the Looking Glass: Bidirectional Approaches to Three Variables 102

8. The Family as a Spiral of Recursive Feedback Loops: An Overview of the Systems Approach 122

9. The Family as a Spiral of Recursive Feedback Loops: A Systemic View of Three Variables 140.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-204) and index.

ISBN:

0803934742

0803934750

OCLC:

27339050