Abigail Strong
Intro to Psychology
November 8, 2014
Professor Nicole Abney
Written Assignment 1a
Question or hypothesis: Does the Triple- P Positive parenting program; developed to introduce effective parenting techniques through the eye opening method of intervention in aspect to understanding the child and the effect of outside influences of the child; make a positive, lasting effect on the parents and thus the development of the child? The report claims that for those who do not receive counseling from the program, the children of parents who have an illiberal approach to parenting tend to increase the chances of emotional and behavioral problems in adolescence and adulthood.
Independent variable: Parenting technique/ approach. The rearing
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The researchers and social workers of this program use an in-depth program based specifically on the situation and dimensions of the family. Specifically, the child’s age, the developing progress of the family, and the level of intervention they can apply to the family. The program focus is transcending basic parenting skills and hesitant parents to a consciously aware and comfortable household environment with strengths in communication and understanding, and discipline on both ends (parent and child). The intended outcome is to help the individual family move towards a method that works for them.
Generally, people who are involved with the program have improved their sense of understanding for each other within the family. However, each case is individual, and not guaranteed for recognized success if participating in the program.
Ideally, and according to the researchers of this program, it would be best utilized during the child’s beginning stages of development around age 3, where neural plasticity is at it’s highest, and when the impact of the change can bring more
Kaplan , L. & Girard, J. (1994). Strengthening high risk families. New York: Lexington Books.
Social work is rarely working with one individual, as stated in O’Loughlin and O’Loughlin (2008); it will involve working with the whole family which is constantly changing making it complex and diverse. It may consist of parents or carers who share the same race, class, culture, or sexuality, but alternatively it may not. Members within the family help to determine our behaviour, roles, rules and stereotyping. To add to this, people are constantly entering and leaving the family system either by marriage, divorce or death. These complexities are shown in ecomaps or genograms. It is important to understand that the child’s welfare is paramount, but in order to achieve positive outcomes for the child, effective work will need to be done within the family. Relationships within a family are known as a system with the family being viewed as a whole, rather than as many individuals. Within family relationships, everyone seeks to uphold the equilibrium so if one member seeks to change, the others seek to resist. However, difficulties include maintaining good relationships and knowing boundaries between professional and personal...
Preoperational stage (ages 2-7) – Concrete physical stimuli are needed in order for a child to develop new concepts.
Strategic and Structural therapy is two forms of therapy that offer similarity as well as difference treatment to assist the family with communicating more effective with each other. The therapist goal is to find creative interventions to help stabilize the family to maintain an appropriate relationship in their environment. Within this paper, a brief description of the similarity and difference of structural and strategic therapy will demonstrate how two forms of behavior therapy can assist families by changing the behavior.
Parents and their parenting style play an important role in the development of their child. In fact, many child experts suggest that parenting style can affect a child’s social, cognitive, and psychological development which influence not just their childhood years, but it will also extend throughout their adult life. This is because a child’s development takes place through a number of stimuli, interaction, and exchanges that surround him or her. And since parents are generally a fixed presence in a child’s life, they will likely have a significant part on the child’s positive or negative development (Gur 25).
A parent’s parenting styles are as diverse as the world we live in today. Nowadays, parents only want what is best for their children and their parenting styles plays a crucial role in the development of children which will in the long run, not only effect the child’s childhood years, but later prolong into their adult life as well.
feelings and behaviors associated to the past events. Whereas, the caretakers, the mother and grandparents would help shape the child’s perceptions of self and family interactions. This will allow Trig to learn two primary factors, individuality and togetherness. Furthermore, it will help focus the family as one unit and it will allow the influence of the mental function in the household as one. Family structure will assist within the behavioral modification. Teachers reported Trig is failing Math but is otherwise an average student. He’s very good at sports however, he has a history starting fights and suspended for starting fights. His school performance was getting worse each year in fact, he was undiagnosed with ADHD. It was suggested he
There is a tremendous gap in the information that is put out on stepfamilies and the way they live. There are countless studies done every year on how the stepparents handle situations and how the stepparents deals with discipline or even how to discipline. Every where you look there is help for the struggling stepparent. Now, that is a good thing, the abundance of help available. But the bad thing about all that help is it did not cover the children’s point of view. Nearly all the studies done do not include children in the research. That is the major flaw in all the help books and programs for stepparents. With the rise of stepfamilies, there needs to be more help offered that takes the child perspective into account. That perspective will be the focus of this study. The intent will be to get a better understanding of how children living in stepfamilies households define their family and how they perceive their relationships with other household members.
A child needs both of their parents’ love and affection while growing up. A child that grows up with both has a higher chance of being a more stable person. However, not all children have this luxury; some children are born into dysfunctional families that consist of only one parent like the children in the Wingfield family. “A study of 1,977 children age 3 and older living with a residential father or father figure found that children living with married biological parents had significantly fewer externalizing behavioral problems than children living with at least one non-biological parent” (Consequences of Fatherlessness). The absent parent in the Wingfield family affected everyone in the family, not only the children. The absent father,
As a social worker it is often complex to determine which theory to employ in practice, each client will warrant for an in-debt assessment of the presenting problem and goals the client desires to achieve. This paper will explore one family intervention model that can be applied to the Taylor family. The two theories analyzed are Cognitive Behavioral Family Theory, (CBFT) and Structural Family Theory (SFT); both theories can be utilized when assisting individuals or families. The social worker will focus on the Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy model when applying treatment and interventions to the Taylor family case.
Successful parenting may be judged by many different standards. Raising a child to be a respectful, mature, and independent adult requires a great deal of effort. There are several parenting styles, and not all lead a child to reaching their full potential. Overpowering sternness leads may lead to a rebellious child, while passive parenting may lead children to inept for the challenges of adulthood. Parenting requires more than teaching children submissiveness, or building of self-importance. Children learn best from a role model who is admirable. Parenting is a great opportunity to set the course of one’s entire life in the right direction.
The environment that children are surrounded by could play a major key on the development of psychopathology later in life. In this study, researchers state that negative, harsh or punitive parenting and lower levels of positive will ultimately cause child emotional and behavioral problems that continue into adolescence and adulthood. In addition, this study will examine the effects of negative and positive
Adults and teachers need to do everything possible to keep physical development from being delayed. Adults can provide children with opportunities to help them in development. By the age of three a child's brain is three quarters of its adult size. From infancy to the age of two development is very rapid (Santrock, 1996). For this reason it is essential for the child to be able to explore their world around them.
intervention. Families in Society. Vol. 88, pg. 42. Proquest Direct database. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
Parenting styles have the capacity of influencing a child’s social, cognitive, and psychological growth, which would then affect the child both in their childhood years, and as an adult.