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| the process by which parents and others ensure that a child’s standards of behaviour, attitudes, skills and motives conform closely to those deemed appropriate to her role in society |
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| ecological systems perspecive 2 principal origins |
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| the realization by psychotherapists that to change the behaviour of a troubled child, one usually must change the family system as well, and Brofenbrenner’s ecological theory |
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| mutually supportive partners |
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| more involved with their children, and their relationships with children demonstrate affection, sensitivity, and competent child-rearing practices |
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| marital difficulties cause parents to change their child-rearing practices or interact differentially with their children |
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| children are actually witnesses to fights and arguments |
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| involves setting reasonable rule and parental use of suggestions, reasoning, and possible alternative courses of action as well as monitoring child’s activities |
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| involves the use of emotion-directed tactics such as guilt and shame induction, withdrawal of love or affection, or ignoring or discounting a child’s feelings |
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| authoritative, authoritarian, permissive and uninvolved |
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| parenting that is warm, responsive, and involved yet unintrusive, and in which parents set reasonable limits and expect appropriately mature behaviour from their children |
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| parenting that is harsh, unresponsive, and rigid, and in which parents tend to use power-assertive methods of control |
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| parenting that is lax and in which parents exercise inconsistent discipline and encourage children to express their impulses freely |
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| parenting that is indifferent and neglectful in which parents focus on their own needs rather than on their children’s needs |
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| parenting in which spouses work together as a team, coordinating their childrearing practices with each other; co-parenting can be co-operative, hostile, or characterized by different levels of investment in the parenting task |
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| one form of co-parenting in which one parent limits or controls the other parent’s level of participation |
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| typically, a family that includes many relatives, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews, within the basic family unit of parents and children |
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| traditional nuclear family |
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| the traditional family form, composed of two parents and one or more children, in which the father is the breadwinner and the mother the homemaker |
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| children who must let themselves into their homes after school because a parent or both parents are working outside their home |
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| parents check in by phone, or devising clear rules and expectations (helps reduce risk associated with self-care) |
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| a form of child custody in which both parents retain and share responsibility for decisions regarding the child’s life but which generally provides for the child to reside with one parent |
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| parents make decisions together regarding their child’s life but they also share physical custody, the child living with each parent for a portion of the year |
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