This human interest book describes the various aspects of children's effects on their parents. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, child effect is examined from the point of view of sociology, psychology, psychiatry, delinquency and literary criticism, as well as others.
Professors, students, and experts in the fields of child development, family studies, and sociology of childhood and family will find this book a sophisticated tool in their desire to better understand and help families and children.
Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been ...
Previously, she has worked as project director on a National Institute of Nursing Research–funded study ... She was chair of a symposium on the current state of the science of drug addiction and pregnancy held by the National Institute ...
In this New York Times bestseller, one of America's premier child psychologists offers a must-read account of the dismal state of parenting today, and a vision for how we can better prepare our children for the challenges of the adult world ...
Overview The Security in the Marital Subsystem—Parent Report (SIMS-PR) scale was initially developed by Davies, Forman, and colleagues (2002) to obtain parents' reports of their children's overt reactions to interparental conflict.
Winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Over 2% of U.S.children under the age of 18—more than 1,700,000 children—have a parent in prison.
In L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in experimental socialpsychology: Vol. 21 (pp.81-227). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. ... Umbel, V. M., Pearson, B. Z., Fernandez, M . C, & Oiler, D. K. (1992). Measuring bilingual children's receptive ...
Dennis was one of them . He was a man with a very pleasant personality who always had something nice to say about people unless the subject of money came up . Once that happened , he almost immediately developed an angry and defensive ...
In Blueprint, behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin describes how the DNA revolution has made DNA personal by giving us the power to predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses from birth.
This is the clear and urgent message of this powerful book.