Sentences with phrase «coercive control practices»

Coercive control practices of authoritarian parents as well as nondemanding practices of unengaged parents and to some extent of democratic parents were related to more negative parent — child relationship indicators than was the extensive use of firm / confrontive control (rational - demanding) by directive parents or authoritative parents.

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Also, the biggest liberal concerns about Islamist practices and abuses involve matters that can only be implemented with majority control of the government (e.g. excessive use of corporal punishment in the criminal justice system), but which are much less harmful to non-Muslims, at least, when Muslims can only enforce their ideologies on co-religionists and can only do so via institutions of civil society rather than institutions of coercive government control.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

The developmental literature shows that parents who perceive themselves as having little power over their lives are more likely to engage in coercive and punitive parenting practices.2 It is therefore not surprising that the NHVP was most helpful to those families who at the start of the programme perceived themselves as having the least control over their lives.3 In their work with high risk families, one of the most crucial roles clinicians can have is in actively empowering their clients, as did the nurses in the NHVP.

These practices are typically grouped under the umbrella of restrictive - feeding practices; however, covert (eg, avoid bringing snack foods into the home) and limit - setting approaches for which control is shared between the parent and child (eg, «parent provides, child decides») may differ from coercive forms of control such as restriction, ie, parent maintains complete control over access (4 — 7).