What Can Parents Do?: New Insights into the Role of Parents in Adolescent Problem Behavior

by Editor: Margaret Kerr (Orebro University, Sweden); Editor: H?kan Stattin (Orebro University, Sweden); Editor: Rutger C. M. E. Engels (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

• ISBN13: 9780470725139
• ISBN10: 0470725133
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

In recent years research on parenting has changed stance from one where parents shape child outcomes to an interactive perspective. However this shift is only now transferring to adolescents, with research exploring how the roles that adolescents and parents play in their interactions can lead to problem behaviour. Part of the Hot Topics in Developmental Research series, this book presents the new perspective.

Table of Contents

About the Editors

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: WhatÆs Changed in Research on Parenting and Adolescent Problem Behavior and What Needs to Change?

Adolescents As Active Agents

AdolescentsÆ Agency in Information Management

Relational Implications of Secrecy and Concealment in ParentûAdolescent Relationships

DonÆt Ask, DonÆt Tell

The Roles Of Adolescent Agency And Parenting Efforts In Relationships And Adjustment 89

Parents React to Adolescent Problem Behaviors by Worrying More and Monitoring Less

Vicissitudes of Parenting Adolescents: Daily Variations in Parental Monitoring and the Early Emergence of Drug Use

Reciprocal Development of Parentûadolescent Support and Adolescent Problem Behaviors

Linkages between Parenting and Peer Relationships: A Model for Parental Management of AdolescentsÆ Peer Relationships

From Coercion to Positive Parenting: Putting Divorced Mothers in Charge of Change

Lessons From Parenting Research On Younger Children

Stepping Up without Overstepping: Disentangling Parenting Dimensions and their Implications for Adolescent Adjustment

What is the Nature of Effective Parenting? It Depends

Positive Parenting and Positive Characteristics and Values in Children

Index

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