What can parents do? : new insights into the role of parents in adolescent problem behavior / edited by Margaret Kerr, Håkan Slattin, Rutger C.M.E. Engels.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kerr, Margaret, 1915-

Stattin, Håkan.

Engels, Rutger C. M. E., 1968-

Series:

Hot topics in developmental research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parent and teenager.

Parenting.

Adolescence.

Adolescent psychology.

Physical Description:

x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2008]

Summary:

Adolescence is a time of rapid cognitive development, and extensive emotional and attitudinal changes. During this time, adolescents typically attach more importance to their friends and peer groups than to their parents, which can often lead to conflict within the family. What is more, it is during adolescence that problem behaviors such as delinquency tend to emerge.

In this groundbreaking new book, international experts on adolescent problem behavior examine theory and research about parents' roles in guiding their adolescents successfully through the adolescent transitions. Based on the latest research findings, some of which challenge widely-held assumptions about parenting adolescents, What Can Parents Do? examines firstly, adolescents as active agents in managing the information that their parents have about their whereabouts and associations. Secondly, the book deals with the different attempts to conceptualize and empirically test more complex models of the role of parenting in the relationships and adjustment of agentic adolescents. Thirdly, the final section deals with eminent parenting researchers whose work deals mainly with children rather than adolescents. They represent research traditions that offer lessons to the changing landscape of research on parenting adolescents.

As the second book of the Hot Topics in Developmental Research series, a three-part developmental psychology range, this volume presents the work of highly prestigious chapter authors edited by Margaret Kerr, Hakan Stattin and Rutger Engels.

An erudite and fascinating read, this book will be invaluable to researchers and academics in developmental psychology, social psychologists and clinical child psychologists.

Contents:

Introduction: What's changed in research on parenting and adolescent problem behavior and what needs to change / Margaret Kerr, Hakan Stattin & Rutger C.M.E. Engels

Adolescents as active agents

Adolescents' agency in information management / Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver and Sheila K. Marshall

Relational implications of secrecy and concealment in parent-adolescent relationships / Catrin Finkenauer, Rutger C. M. E. Engels, and Kaska E. Kubacka

Don't ask, don't tell (your mom and dad) : disclosure and nondisclosure in adolescent-parent relationships / Judith G. Smetana and Aaron Metzger

The roles of adolescent agency and parenting efforts in relationships and adjustment

Parents react to adolescent problem behaviors by worrying more and monitoring less / Margaret Kerr, Hakan Stattin & Vilmante Pakalniskiene

Vicissitudes of parenting adolescents: daily variations in parental monitoring and the early emergence of drug use / Thomas J. Dishion, Bernadette Marie Bullock, and Jeff Kiesner

Reciprocal development of parent-adolescent support and adolescent problem behaviors / Susan J.T. Branje, William W. Hale III, and Wim H. J. Meeus

Linkages between parenting and peer relationships : a model for parental management of adolescents' peer relationships / Nina S. Mounts

From coercion to positive parenting : putting divorced mothers in charge of change / Marion S. Forgatch, Zintars G. Beldavs, Gerald R. Patterson, and David S. DeGarmo

Lessons from parenting research on younger children

Stepping up without overstepping : disentangling parenting dimensions and their implications for adolescent adjustment / Wendy S. Grolnick, Krista L. Beiswenger, and Carrie E. Price

What is the nature of effective parenting? : it depends / Joan E. Grusec

Positive parenting and positive characteristics and values in children / Marc H. Bornstein.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780470723630

0470723637

OCLC:

173718754

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