Parent Parenting with Aggressiveness

Parent and adolescent reports of parenting when a parent has a history of depression: associations with observations of parenting.

The current study examined the congruence of parent and adolescent reports of positive and negative parenting with observations of parent-adolescent interactions as the criterion measure. The role of parent and adolescent depressive symptoms in moderating the associations between adolescent or parent report and observations of parenting also was examined. Participants were 180 parents (88.9 % f...

Appraisals of Parenting, Parent–child Interactions, Parenting Styles, and Children: an Annotated Bibliography

sTImULUs GEnERALIzATIOn Of pAREnTInG skILLs DURInG pAREnT-chILD InTERAcTIOn ThERApy

Behavioral parent training is a common approach to addressing externalizing behavior, which is among the most frequent and costly reasons for children’s referral to mental health settings (Kazdin, 1997). Parent training focuses on promoting positive interactions and reducing misbehavior by teaching parents to rearrange the social contingencies for their children’s behavior. Systematic research ...

Child adjustment and parenting in planned lesbian-parent families.

One hundred planned lesbian-parent families (i.e., two-mother families in which the child was born to the lesbian relationship) were compared with 100 heterosexual-parent families on child adjustment, parental characteristics, and child rearing. Questionnaires, observations, and a diary of activities were used to collect the data. The results show that especially lesbian social mothers (i.e., n...

Factors Associated with Parent Concern for Child Weight and Parenting Behaviors

BACKGROUND A parent's perception about their child's overweight status is an important precursor or determinant of preventative actions. Acknowledgment of, and concern for, overweight may be moderated by the parent's own weight status whereas engaging in healthy behaviors at home may promote healthy weight status. It is hypothesized that normal weight parents are more likely to engage in health...