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Authoritative Parenting: Synthesizing Nurturance and Discipline for Optimal Child Development 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Robert E. Larzelere (Author, Editor), Amanda Sheffield Morris (Editor), Amanda W. Harrist (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
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In this book, leading scholars update our thinking about authoritative parenting and address three unresolved issues: mechanisms of the style’s effectiveness, variations of effectiveness across cultures, and untangling how parents influence children from how children influence them.

Psychologist Diana Baumrind's revolutionary prototype of parenting, called authoritative parenting, combines the best of various parenting styles. In contrast to previous emphases on parental responsiveness alone (permissive parenting) or on demandingness alone (authoritarian parenting), authoritative parenting combines high levels of both responsiveness and demandingness. The result is an appropriate mix of warm nurturance and firm discipline.

By integrating perspectives from developmental and clinical psychology, the book will inform prevention and intervention efforts to help parents maximize their children’s potential.
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    978-1433812408
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    1st
  3. Publisher
    American Psychological Association
  4. Publication date
    November 15, 2012
  5. Language
    English
  6. File size
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Robert E. Larzelere, PhD, is a professor of human development and family science at Oklahoma State University. He has done research on parental discipline of young children for over 30 years and has collaborated with others to improve the methods used to support social scientific conclusions more generally. His research focuses particularly on comparing the emphasis on consistent consequences in some scientific perspectives on parenting with the emphasis on gentle verbal correction predominant in other scientific perspectives. He recently collaborated with Diana Baumrind to clarify the long-term effects of authoritative parenting and the specific types of power assertion that differentiate it from authoritarian parenting. He benefited from postdoctoral research training from Drs. Murray Straus and Gerald Patterson.
 
Amanda Sheffield Morris, PhD, is a professor of human development and family science at Oklahoma State University. She is a developmental scientist with research interests in parenting, emotion regulation, and developmental psychopathology. Her research focuses on the role of emotion regulation in child and adolescent adjustment and the ways in which children learn successful regulation skills. She was mentored by Drs. Laurence Steinberg and Nancy Eisenberg in her doctoral and postdoctoral work at Temple University and Arizona State University.
 
Amanda W. Harrist, PhD, is an associate professor of human development and family science at Oklahoma State University. Her research centers on the development of children's social competence, specifically the early social antecedents of children's competence and maladjustment exhibited in preschool and the early years of school, and the role that social cognition plays as a mediator. To this end, she has explored the relation of children's behavior in the peer group to early family interactions (parent–child and marriage), observed both naturalistically and in the laboratory. She also is interested in interventions for children at risk in early social settings and has pursued this through several funded projects, most recently in the Families & Schools for Health Project, a longitudinal study of the family and rural school contexts of child obesity. She worked with Drs. Gregory Pettit, Kenneth Dodge, and John Bates while at the University of Tennessee.
 

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00B2NB6KC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ American Psychological Association; 1st edition (November 15, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 15, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1801 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 280 pages
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  1. Robert E. Larzelere

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    I got into research on parental discipline because I thought children need the best science possible. As in any area, our conclusions are only as good as the adequacy of the science behind them. When I collaborated with Diana Baumrind, I was astounded at the long-term benefits of her authoritative parenting compared to the extremes of overly punitive authoritarian parenting and overly lax permissive parenting. Authoritative parenting combines nurturance, give-and-take communication, and age-appropriate independence with daily routines, home responsibilities, and firm disciplinary control when warranted. Whereas some experts tell parents to use only some of these skills, Diana always said that the entire package was necessary -- especially for the most defiant children. Children who are the most difficult to love are the ones who need that love the most. Children who defy disciplinary limits the most are the ones who most need the combination of disciplinary persuasion and negative consequences that is typical of authoritative parenting. Our book on Authoritative Parenting features chapters by Diana Baumrind and others who are helping us understand and apply the best type of authoritative parenting to help children achieve their full potential for themselves and for others.

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    Dr. Amanda Sheffield Morris is a Regents Professor and the George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in Applied Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at Oklahoma State University. She is a developmental scientist who has published over 100 articles on children and adolescents’ socio-emotional development, with research interests in parenting, emotion regulation, early life adversity, and risk and resilience. With Dr. Jennifer Hays-Grudo she is co-author of Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences: A Developmental Perspective and Raising a Resilient Child in a World of Adversity: Effective Parenting for Every Family, both published by the American Psychological Association. She is the editor in chief for the Journal of Research on Adolescence and is an Associate Editor for the journal of Adversity and Resilience Science: Research and Practice published by Springer/Nature. She is an MPI for the Oklahoma site of the NIH-funded HEALlthy Brain Child Development (HBCD) national study, and was a Co-Investigator for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study for seven years.

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  • nancy poston
    5.0 out of 5 stars This is how to raise your child
    Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2020
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    Very good info - I give to all expectant parents.
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  • Dr. Robert Pressman
    4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent review of authoritative parenting and comparison with other styles
    Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2013
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    Notwithstanding that the book is a testimonial to Diana Braumrind, who has been a prolific and honored researcher of parenting styles, it provides a solid examination of this topic. It is an "edited" book, comprised of chapters contributed by different authors. Some chapters are absolutely brilliant, replete with great examples and easy to read prose. Some are not. Nonetheless, this is a must read for anyone who wants to read one of the most thorough comparisons of parenting styles and the impact of these styles on children. Collectively, the book also contains one of the best bibliographies on this topic.
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  • Carla Thomas
    5.0 out of 5 stars For School
    Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2015
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    Happen to know the author of this book and it is a great read.
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  • Paul Poelstra
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for parenting research
    Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2015
    This book is an excellent reference work exploring the research on the interplay between the role of demandingness (control) and responsiveness (nurturance) in parenting. Baumrind’s seminal research showing that optimal parenting draws on these two dimensions continues to be a driving force in the study of parenting. Her perspective provides the foundation for this book. The contributors represent different perspectives in how to put the parenting research together.

    In chapter 1, Baumrind provides a history of the philosophical and theoretical strands that have contributed to her model. She highlights the important distinction between confrontive vs. coercive control of children’s behavior showing how they differentiate authoritative parenting from authoritarian and permissive parenting. She closes her chapter describing her longitudinal study that looked at parental styles and ideological variables and how they related to the competency of adolescents.

    The remaining chapters review the most relevant studies on authoritative parenting along with chapters exploring some of the ongoing unresolved issues in the field. One of the challenging issues for investigators in this field is how to determine whether the benefits associated with authoritative parenting in longitudinal studies are the result of parent or child variables. I was pleased to see that this is one of the issues Larzelere, Cox and Mandara explore in Chapter 4. Given the correlational nature of these studies, there needs to be a way of determining the direction of the effects. The authors show how corrective disciplinary measures (including nonphysical punishment such as time out) are often associated with behavior problems in children. The question is whether or not this is the result of an inherent self-selection bias caused by the child’s behavior. Perhaps children who frequently misbehave elicit more disciplinary action from their parents making it appear that parental discipline increases bad behavior.

    Most corrective interventions are associated with worse outcomes when compared to those who did not need those corrective interventions. Thus, those who are treated for cancer will appear to have worse outcomes when compared to those who did not need treatment. In evaluating results from these longitudinal parenting studies, investigators need to address the self-selection bias inherent in this kind of research.

    For those interested in the scholarly work related to parenting, this is a very useful resource in gaining an understanding of the current perspectives in the field.
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  • Den Trumbull
    4.0 out of 5 stars A scholarly compilation of research and essays expounding on the ...
    Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2015
    A scholarly compilation of research and essays expounding on the time-honored, authoritative parenting style. For the psychologist and social scientist, this book is a priceless compendium on child development.
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  • thatmanphil
    2.0 out of 5 stars A research paper about a research paper
    Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2013
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    This is not your "how to be an authoritative parent" like i thought it was. This book is mostly evaluations and summaries of Baumrind's research. Moreover, it is impossible to read for more than a few seconds at a time. It's like reading the dictionary from start to finish. I even tried reading this to help put me to sleep but i had to put it down and find something else! It's one long boring research paper about someone else's long boring research paper.
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    a bit over scientific
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2015
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    Great content but repetitive and full of technobabble. Worth reading if you don't mind this.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars but useful.
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    Very academic, but useful.
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