Not exact matches
Developmental psychologist Clancy Blair
of New York University explained the
role that positive
parenting plays in the development
of self - control.
The proper
role of the
parent is to provide encouragement, support, and access to activities that enable the child to master key
developmental tasks.
As one
of the authors (Barth) discusses in detail in an article in the latest volume
of The Future
of Children,
developmental scientists have put together conclusive evidence that
parenting plays a pivotal
role in children's social, emotional, health, and intellectual development.
This calls for acknowledging the massive biological and psychological shifts
of motherhood, the reorganization
of the relationship between
parents, the
role of the baby, as well as the normal ambivalence that accompanies this
developmental phase.
Parents play an important
role in all
of the
developmental domains and physical development is equally important.
He also suggested health visitors, when they visited new
parents and carried out
developmental checks, could take a
role in encouraging
parents in target families to take up the offer
of free childcare.
My job as an Occupational Therapist providing infant - toddler services brought me into many homes where my
role was to teach the
parents of a child with a
developmental delay how to help their child use their abilities.
Our jobs require us to assume various
roles — nurturer,
parent, and coach — and achieve a myriad
of goals — to inspire, teach technique and regulate students
of varying emotional, social, and
developmental levels.
In Virginia, a court may consider any
of the following factors, among others, in making a decision: The age and physical and mental condition
of the child, giving due consideration to the child's changing
developmental needs; the age and physical and mental condition
of each
parent; the relationship existing between each
parent and each child, giving due consideration to the positive involvement with the child's life, the ability to accurately assess and meet the emotional, intellectual and physical needs
of the child; the needs
of the child, giving due consideration to other important relationships
of the child, including but not limited to siblings, peers and extended family members; the
role that each
parent has played and will play in the future, in the upbringing and care
of the child; the propensity
of each
parent to actively support the child's contact and relationship with the other
parent, including whether a
parent has unreasonably denied the other
parent access to or visitation with the child; the relative willingness and demonstrated ability
of each
parent to maintain a close and continuing relationship with the child, and the ability
of each
parent to cooperate in and resolve disputes regarding matters affecting the child; the reasonable preference
of the child, if the court deems the child to be
of reasonable intelligence, understanding, age and experience to express such a preference; any history
of family abuse; and such other factors as the court deems necessary and proper to the determination.
The concept
of parentification refers to «the reversal
of the
parent - child
role», or when a child is forced to serve in a parental
role towards their own
parent, because their own
parent did not have their
developmental needs met growing up.
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.
Beyond
parenting, broader factors — at the level
of the extended family (eg, grandparents, aunts), community and society — also play an important
developmental role.
Bright Futures, the AAP health promotion initiative, provides resources for pediatricians to detect both ACEs and adverse
developmental outcomes.36 Programs like Reach Out and Read, in which pediatricians distribute books and model reading, simultaneously promote emergent literacy and
parent — child relationships through shared reading.37, 38 However, ACEs can not be addressed in isolation and require collaborative efforts with partners in the education, home visitation, and other social service sectors in synergistic efforts to strengthen families.29 In this way, programs like Help Me Grow39 that create streamlined access to early childhood services for at - risk children can play a critical
role in building an integrated system that connects families to needed resources to enhance the development
of vulnerable children.
Parenting and Substance Abuse:
Developmental Approaches to Intervention Suchman, Pajulo, & Mayes (2013) View Abstract Reports on pioneering efforts to move the treatment
of substance - abusing
parents forward by embracing their
roles and experiences as mothers and fathers directly and continually across the course
of treatment.
«More generally, the limited
role of shared environmental factors in physical aggression clashes with the results
of studies
of singletons in which many family or
parent level factors were found to predict
developmental trajectories
of physical aggression during preschool.»
The intensive (and all therapy sessions) entails one or more
of the following techniques:
developmental movement therapy,
developmental re-
parenting (
parenting the child as if s / he were the age at the time the trauma occurred and the age the child seems emotionally equivalent to), behavioral management (rewards and consequences), storytelling (recreate happier more secure early childhood memories), EMDR (eye movement desensitization reprocessing that stops the rumination
of negative feedback loops), and psychodrama, (nonverbal physical
role playing) and cognitive restructuring.
Our understanding
of the
developmental needs
of children and the important
role of both
parents has radically shifted, and current
parenting plans support this.
The PRIDE Model
of Practice is based on five essential competency categories for foster / adoptive
parents, developed from a comprehensive national analysis
of the
roles of foster and adoptive
parents and grouped into the following five categories: (1) Protecting and nurturing children (safety child welfare outcome); (2) Meeting children's
developmental needs and addressing
developmental delays (well - being child welfare outcome); (3) Supporting relationships between children and their families (permanency child welfare outcome); (4) Connecting children to safe, nurturing relationships intended to last a lifetime (permanency child welfare outcome); and (5) Working as a member
of a professional team (essential to achieve the above four categories).
Thoughtful planning, therefore, includes consideration
of the
role of relationships in a facilitative
developmental parenting program.
In many cases, a creative solution can be devised that allows both good, healthy
parents to have an equitable
role in the
developmental lives
of their children.
While other
developmental factors can lead to a
role - reversal relationship (such as parental alcoholism), the symptomatic presence in «parental alienation»
of both a
role - reversal relationship and borderline personality organization in the
parent suggests the possible presence
of sexual abuse «source code» in the internal working models
of the narcissistic / (borderline)
parent's attachment system that was inserted into the trans - generational transmission
of attachment patterns (Benoit & Parker, 1994; Bretherton, 1990; Jacobvitz, Morgan, Kretchmar, & Morgan, 1991).
The potential
role of interventions such as infant massage even with groups
of parents not at high risk has been highlighted by recent research in the field
of developmental psychology and infant mental health, which has indicated the importance
of parental attuned and sensitive caregiving for infant attachment security.
When the three diagnostic indicators
of attachment - based «parental alienation» (i.e.,
of a cross-generational coalition
of the child with a narcissistic / (borderline)
parent involving the
role - reversal use
of the child as a regulatory object for the
parent's emotional and psychological state) are present, if the psychologist does not make an accurate diagnosis
of the pathology then the «reasonably foreseeable consequences» would be the child's loss
of a developmentally healthy and bonded relationship with a normal - range and affectionally available
parent, and the
developmental pathology imposed on the child by the pathogenic
parenting of the narcissistic / borderline
parent.
Developmental Origins
of Rumination in Middle Childhood: The
Roles of Early Temperament and Positive
Parenting.
[jounal] Gondoli, D. M. / 1997 / Maternal emotional distress and diminished responsiveness: The mediating
role of parenting efficacy and parental perspective taking /
Developmental Psychology 33: 861 ~ 868
The following principles regarding the
developmental role of «protest behavior» are important for understanding the child's anger and rejection that is being expressed toward the targeted
parent in attachment - based «parental alienation.»
CRN services work to: 1) ameliorate the effects
of trauma on young children in terms
of children's affect, behavior, and self - regulation; 2) reverse
developmental delays resulting from child abuse and neglect; 3) prepare fragile children for successful entry into preschool; and 4) enhance
parenting skills and capacity through
parent education,
parent - child relationship building, coaching,
role modeling, and stress reduction.
Children
of mothers who are depressed or who have depressive symptoms are at increased risk for
developmental delay, 1 behavioral problems, 2 depression, 3 asthma morbidity, 4 and injuries.5 Depressed mothers are less likely to engage in preventive
parenting practices6 and are more likely to use child health care services.7 Though research initially focused on postpartum depression, it is clear that maternal depressive symptoms often persist after the postpartum period, 8 and this persistence further increases the effect on children's health.9 As a result, the pediatric
role in identifying and addressing maternal depressive symptoms has received increasing attention.10 - 13
Parents resulted satisfied about their
role and are able to balance between being a
parent and other kind
of role satisfaction; they showed a positive overall perception
of being able to meet goals, and to performance a variety
of maintenance,
developmental, and crisis tasks in the family.
Young mothers are often unprepared for the tasks
of parenting (Leadbeater, Bishop, & Raver, 1996; McHenry, Browne, Kotch, & Symons, 1990; Wasserman, Rauh, Brunelli, Garcia - Castro, & Necos, 1990), and their adaptation to the new parental
role is complicated by their struggles to negotiate the
developmental tasks
of adolescence (Hurlbut & McDonald, 1997).
Although additional work is needed to replicate findings and investigate
developmental mechanisms, these results offer insight about the
roles of infant negative affect and
parent anxiety symptoms that may enhance our ability to identify, intervene, and treat children at risk for elevated symptomatology.
Developmental trajectory from early responses to transgressions to future antisocial behavior: Evidence for the
role of the
parent — child relationship from two longitudinal studies.
The TAMAR Education Project provides basic insights on trauma, its
developmental effects on symptoms and current functioning, symptom appraisal and management, the impact
of early chaotic relationships on healthcare needs, the development
of coping skills, preventive education concerning pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, sexuality, and help in dealing with
role loss and
parenting issues.
Investigating the Influence
of Parenting Stress on Child Behavior Problems in Children with
Developmental Delay: The
Role of Parent - Child Relational Factors.