The Parental Experience in Midlife

The Parental Experience in Midlife
Author: Carol D. Ryff
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 700
Release: 1996
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780226732510

Most adults experience parenthood. But the longest period of the parental experience—when children grow into adolescence and young adulthood and parents themselves are not yet elderly—is the least understood. In this groundbreaking volume, distinguished scholars from anthropology, demography, economics, psychology, social work, and sociology explore the uncharted years of midlife parenthood. The authors employ a rich array of theory and methods to address how the parental experience affects the health, well-being, and development of individuals. Collectively, they look at the time when parents watch offspring grow into adulthood and begin to establish adult-to-adult relationships with their children. With a strong emphasis on the diversity of midlife parenting, including sociodemographic variations and specific parent or child characteristics such as single parenting or raising a child with a disability, this volume presents for the first time the complex factors that influence the quality of the midlife parenting experience.

Adolescent Relations with Mothers, Fathers and Friends

Adolescent Relations with Mothers, Fathers and Friends
Author: James Youniss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1985
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0226964884

This book is a companion piece and extension of an earlier analysis of parent and friend relations, their structure and functions in children's social and personal development (James Youniss, Parents and Peers in Social Development: A Sullivan-Piaget Perspective, University of Chicago Press, 1980) The present book focuses on adolescents in these same relations. It presents two kinds of material: first, adolescents' own descriptions of interactions they have had in these relations, and second, theory regarding what these relations are and how they contribute to development. As before, relations are treated in the ideal typical sense as descriptions are synthesized across subjects to yield average charateristics that define structure.

Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 8)

Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 8)
Author: Donald A. P. Bundy
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 977
Release: 2017-11-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1464804397

More children born today will survive to adulthood than at any time in history. It is now time to emphasize health and development in middle childhood and adolescence--developmental phases that are critical to health in adulthood and the next generation. Child and Adolescent Health and Development explores the benefits that accrue from sustained and targeted interventions across the first two decades of life. The volume outlines the investment case for effective, costed, and scalable interventions for low-resource settings, emphasizing the cross-sectoral role of education. This evidence base can guide policy makers in prioritizing actions to promote survival, health, cognition, and physical growth throughout childhood and adolescence.

Risk and Resilience

Risk and Resilience
Author: John G. Borkowski
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1135610282

In 1984, a longitudinal study was launched at the University of Notre Dame to evaluate the social and psychological consequences of teenage parenting. Interwoven Lives: Adolescent Mothers and Their Children (2001) described, in detail, the development of these adolescent mothers and their children across the first eight years of life. Major delays were first noticed in children's patterns of attachment at age 1 and their IQ and personal adjustment scores at age 3. By age 8, school-related problems were found in 70% of the children. With these data as the backdrop, this companion volume, Risk and Resilience, identifies major risk factors associated with long-term developmental delays as well as the processes that led to resilience in some of the mothers and children. This new volume traces the children's development at ages 8, 10, and 14. The editors focus on identifying risk and protective factors associated with important life course trajectories as the mothers entered early adulthood and their children became adolescents. Relatively unexplored protective factors - such as religiosity, patterns of father involvement, and romantic relationships - were found to positively influence development for both teenage mothers and their children. This new text also addresses: New methodological approaches with an emphasis on the use of hierarchical linear and structural equation modeling and dynamical systems analyses Implications for prevention and intervention programs Intellectual, educational, and socioemotional outcome data The "dark side" of rearing children in poverty The multiple risks related to adolescent parenting and their profound impact on children's development How resilience emerges in children's lives and the specific factors that promote it. Risk and Resilience appeals to researchers in developmental psychology and family processes as well as agency and government professionals charged with public policy and service delivery.

Conflict and Cohesion in Families

Conflict and Cohesion in Families
Author: Martha J. Cox
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 377
Release: 1998-12
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1135688680

Based on a summer institute of the Family Research Consortium, this book presents theory and research from leading scholars working on issues of risk and resilience in families. Focusing on the splits and bonds that shape children's development, this volume's primary goal is to stimulate theoretical and empirical advances in research on family processes. It will be valuable to developmental, social, and clinical psychologists, sociologists, and family studies specialists.

At the Threshold

At the Threshold
Author: S. Shirley Feldman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 662
Release: 1990
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780674050358

Presents the findings of the Carnegie Foundation study on adolescence, an interdisciplinary synthesis of research into the biological, social, and psychological changes occurring during this key stage in the life span. Focuses on the contexts of adolescent life-- social and ethnic, family and school, leisure and work.

Life-Span Development and Behavior

Life-Span Development and Behavior
Author: David L. Featherman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-05-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317728963

The final volume in this significant series, this publication mirrors the broad scientific attention given to ideas and issues associated with the life-span perspective: constancy and change in human development; opportunities for and constraints on plasticity in structure and function across life; the potential for intervention across the entire life course (and thus for the creation of an applied developmental science); individual differences (diversity) in life paths, in contexts (or the ecology) of human development, and in changing relations between people and contexts; interconnections and discontinuities across age levels and developmental periods; and the importance of integrating biological, psychological, social, cultural, and historical levels of organization in order to understand human development.

The Midlife Mother's Experience of the Mother-adolescent Daughter Relationship

The Midlife Mother's Experience of the Mother-adolescent Daughter Relationship
Author: Jordana Golan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1998
Genre:
ISBN: 9780591817980

This study is a qualitative, heuristic investigation of the mid-life mother's experience of her relationship with her adolescent daughter. the purpose was to identify and understand the essential themes and meanings inherent in the experience. An heuristic research design and methodology guided the processes of preparation to conduct the investigation, methods of data collection and methods of analysis and synthesis of the data. the inquiry involved five phases: autobiographical origins and self reflection pertinent to the mother-daughter relationship; a review of relevant literature; an elucidation of heuristic theory and methodology; analysis and synthesis of the data; and a summary of the investigation including implications and outcomes. the researcher interviewed herself as well as nine co-researchers. the co-researchers were volunteers, all of whom met the criteria--adult women between the ages of 40 and 55; mothers of adolescent daughters between 13 and 20. Individual depictions, portraits, and a composite depiction were developed from tape recorded interview data. Common themes were revealed: the mother's experience of intense pain and anguish; reliving and resolving the mother's own adolescence; and coping with challenges and trials of growing and changing toward mid-life self-fulfillment. the research data pointed to triggers in the mother-daughter relationship that awaken the mother's own adolescent issues and also inspire self-discovery and personal and professional growth. the mothers in this research investigation claimed responsibility for their own lives and moved toward self-fulfilling choices and activities.

Handbook of Parenting

Handbook of Parenting
Author: Marc H. Bornstein
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2005-02-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135650810

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions, but about which few people agree. Striking permutations on the theme of parenting are emerging--single parenthood, blended families, lesbian and gay parents, and teen versus fifties first-time moms and dads. Divided into four volumes, the Handbook of Parenting is concerned with different types of parents, basic characteristics of parenting, forces that shape parenting, problems faced by parents, and the practical sides of parenting. Contributors have worked in different ways toward understanding all of these diverse aspects of parenting and look to the most recent research and thinking in the field to shed light on many topics every parent has wondered about. Because development is too subtle, dynamic, and intricate to admit that parental caregiving alone determines the course and outcome of ontogeny, volume 1 concerns how children influence parenting. Volume 2 relates parenting to its biological roots and sets parenting in its ecological framework. Volume 3 distinguishes among the cast of characters responsible for parenting and is revealing of the psychological make-ups and social interests of those individuals. Volume 4 describes problems of parenting as well as the promotion of positive parenting practices. Written to be read and absorbed in a single sitting, each chapter addresses a different but central topic in parenting, and is rooted in current thinking and theory as well as classic and modern research on that topic. All chapters follow a standard organization including an introduction to the chapter as a whole followed by historical considerations of the topic, a discussion of central issues and theory, a review of classic and modern research, forecasts of future directions for theory and research, and a conclusion. In addition to considering their own convictions and research, the chapter contributors present and broadly interpret all major points of view and central lines of inquiry.