Enhancing Parenting Skills A Guide Book for Professionals Working with Parents

by Dwivedi, Kedar Nath

• ISBN13: 9780471976615
• ISBN10: 047197661X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-29
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Parenting is attracting more professional and political attention now than ever before. More and more parents need the support of others to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to choose what would be best for their children. A variety of professionals are often involved in contributing to the assessment of parenting and/or setting up programmes for enhancing it. This important guide provides practical information for setting up assessment and parenting programmes for a range of professionals, dealing with parenting issues in historical, socio-economic, gender and ethnic contexts. In this comprehensive book, a team of multi-disciplinary experts offers practical solutions to a variety of challenges faced by parents, and professionals devoted to helping the parents. The chapters explore parenting in relation to common, specific problems such as, hyperactivity in children, behaviour problems, learning difficulties, and stepfamily situations. Enhancing Parenting Skills is essential reading for a range of professionals, including health visitors, social workers, psychologists, probation officers, education welfare officers, teachers, general practitioners and paediatricians. It is also a useful text for students on professional courses such as Social Work, Family Therapy, and Family and Education.

Author Biography

Kedar Nath Dwivedi is the editor of Enhancing Parenting Skills: A Guide Book for Professionals Working with Parents, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	ix	(4)
Foreword	xiii	(2)
Philip Graham
Preface	xv
Introduction	1	(4)
Kedar Nath Dwivedi
1 Parenting Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow	5	(16)
Sebastian Kraemer
2 Parenting at the Margins: Some Consequences of Inequality	21	(22)
Masud Hoghughi
3 Gender Issues in Parenting	43	(16)
Paquita McMichael
Gerda Siann
4 Approaches to Working with Ethnicity and Cultural Differences	59	(18)
Charmaine R. Kemps
5 Parenthood: Assessment of `Good Enough Parenting'	77	(22)
Shanthy Parameswaran
6 Parent Education Programmes	99	(24)
Dorit Braun
7 Group Work with Parents	123	(16)
Harold Behr
8 Developing Home-based Parenting Skill Programmes, Supported by Group Sessions of Parenting Techniques	139	(14)
Peter Marsden-Allen
9 Helping Parents Cope with their Hyperactive Children	153	(16)
Jo Douglas
10 Stepfamilies	169	(20)
Kathleen Cox
11 Parenting of Gifted Children	189	(16)
David George
12 Parenting Learning Disabled Children: Realities and Practicalities	205	(16)
Ruchira Leisten
Index	221