scholarly journals The Meaning of the Child Interview (MotC) – the initial validation of a new procedure for assessing and understanding the parent-child relationships of “at risk” families

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-31
Author(s):  
Ben Grey ◽  
Steve Farnfield
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Initial Validation ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
The Family ◽  
Child Interview ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Care Index ◽  
Parent Child

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on the initial validation of a new method, called the “Meaning of the Child Interview” (MotC), to assess the psychological meaning all children have for their parents, but which in cases of risk, submerge or distort the child’s identity. The MotC analyses parental discourse using a method developed from the discourse analysis used to classify the Adult Attachment Interview together with patterns derived from the infant CARE-Index, a procedure that evaluates face-to-face parent-child interaction. This allows the MotC to illuminate how the parent’s thinking influences the developing relationship between parent and child. Design/methodology/approach Parents are interviewed using the Parent Development Interview (PDI), or an equivalent, and then the interview transcript is classified using the MotC system. The coding method was developed from interviews drawn from the first author’s work with children and families in the family court system, and then tested with a sample of 85 mothers and fathers, 62 of whom were parents drawn from an “at risk” context. The parents were also videoed in a short free play interaction, using the CARE-Index. Findings The study found a strong correspondence between the levels of risk as assessed by the MotC patterns of parental representation of care giving, the risk to the parent-child relationship observed using the CARE-Index. There was also corroboration of the patterns of interaction identified by the MotC. Originality/value The results of the study provide good evidence for the Meaning of the Child as an identifiable construct, and as an assessment tool to identify and assess the nature of “at risk” parent-child relationships. MotC was developed in a clinical setting within the Family Court justice system, and is designed to offer assistance to child protection and mental health practitioners deciding how to intervene in particular parent-child relationships.

scholarly journals The Meaning of the Child Interview: A new procedure for assessing and understanding parent–child relationships of ‘at-risk’ families

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Grey ◽  
Steve Farnfield
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Coding System ◽  
Parental Sensitivity ◽  
Child Interview ◽  
Parent Development ◽  
Fatal Child Abuse ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Care Index ◽  
Parent Child

Reder and Duncan’s well-known studies of the 1990s on fatal child abuse drew attention to how parental scripts regarding their children could dangerously distort relationships in ways that were sometimes fatal to children. This article reports on a new system for assessing the ‘meaning of the child to the parent’, called the Meaning of the Child Interview (MotC). Parents are interviewed using the established Parent Development Interview, or equivalent, and the transcript of the interview is then analysed according to parental sensitivity and likely risk to the child. The MotC constructs were developed from those used in observed parent–child interaction (specifically, the CARE-Index) and the form of discourse analysis used in the Dynamic Maturational Model – Adult Attachment Interview, allowing a more systemic and inter-subjective understanding of parenting representations than often put forward. This article discusses the theoretical background to the MotC, gives a brief review of similar measures and then introduces the coding system and patterns of caregiving. The validity of the MotC is addressed elsewhere.

scholarly journals Retaining the adolescent workforce in family businesses

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Telling ◽  
Philip John Goulding
Keyword(s):  
Career Choice ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Context ◽  
The Family ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to critically explore the linkage between adolescent work, parent–child relationships and offspring career choice outcomes in a family business context. It examines the aforementioned in light of the stay/go decision faced by adolescent family members.Design/methodology/approachFindings are derived from semi-structured interviews with 15 individuals from five Italian families operating family catering businesses in Yorkshire (UK). The approach represents a sample spanning four generations, designed to capture data from individuals who had experienced adolescent work at the family business.FindingsThe findings offer evidence that the “familiarity” of family business impacts on offspring career choices, providing a safety net or a trap which can impede exit decisions. Returning after periods of study leave that represent the transition from adolescence to adulthood, offspring continue to use the family business as a base from which to explore their career options. Alternatively, when parent–child relationships break down, family business escape strategies assume priority for offspring.Research limitations/implicationsThe study focussed exclusively on migrant Italian families within the catering sector. The sample included different generational representations among the five families. It lays the ground for future research of a similar nature among other family business ethnicities and across other economic sectors.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to understanding offspring career choice outcomes in a family business context. The empirical evidence suggests that parent–child relationships are instrumental to understanding the stay/go decision as well as previous stages of the socialisation process of embedding in the family business.

CHILD-PARENT RELATIONS AS A FACTOR IN THE FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL PREFERENCES IN PEDAGOGICAL DYNASTIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 126-130
Author(s):  
N. V. SHAMANIN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Professional Preferences ◽  
Parent Child

The article raises the issue of the relationship of parent-child relationships and professional preferences in pedagogical dynasties. Particular attention is paid to the role of the family in the professional development of the individual. It has been suggested that there is a relationship between parent-child relationships and professional preferences.

Liberalism and the Family

Family Values ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Brighouse ◽  
Adam Swift
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Parental Rights ◽  
Moral Concern ◽  
The Core ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Family ◽  
Exit Option ◽  
The One ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

This chapter sets out the ways in which the family might be thought to pose problems for the liberal framework, and defends the adoption of that framework from the objection that it simply cannot do justice to—or, perhaps, fails adequately to care about—the ethically significant phenomena attending parent–child relationships. On the one hand, liberalism takes individuals to be the fundamental objects of moral concern, and the rights it claims people have are primarily rights of individuals over their own lives: the core liberal idea is that it is important for individuals to exercise their own judgment about how they are to live. On the other hand, parental rights are rights over others, they are rights over others who have no realistic exit option, and they are rights over others whose capacity to make their own judgments about how they are to live their lives is no less important than that of the adults raising them.

scholarly journals FAKTOR AYAH DAN IBU YANG BERKONTRIBUSI TERHADAP MUNCULNYA GEJALA PERILAKU DISRUPTIF REMAJA

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 230
Author(s):  
Nandy Agustin Syakarofath ◽  
Subandi Subandi
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Disruptive Behavior ◽  
Expressed Emotion ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Authority Figures ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Property Destruction ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

Disruptive behavior according to DSM 5 is a pattern of behavior that violates the rights of others, aggression, property destruction and or that leads individuals to experience significant conflicts with violations of social norms or authority figures. This study aims to examine the significance of two factors derived from the family towards the emergence of disruptive behavior that are the family expressed emotion and perceived of parentchild relationships. There are 237 teenagers was participated in this study (aged 15-18 years old) who lived with their parent obtained from the scaling of SDQ, LEE and PACQ. The result of the regression indicated the two predictors explained 5,3% of variance (adjusted R2 = .053, F(3.235) = .013, p<.05). The implications of this study are the family expressed emotion and perceived of parent-child relationships are two factors that can contributed to the emergence of disruptive behavior symptoms in adolescent, although if analyzed separately perceived of parent-child relationships towards a mother has no effect.  

Mentoring At-Risk Latino Children and Their Parents: Analysis of the Parent–Child Relationship and Family Strength

2002 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Barron-McKeagney ◽  
Jane D. Woody ◽  
Henry J. D'Souza
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Parent Education ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Latino Children ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Family Strength ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Family ◽  
Parent Child

The Family Mentoring Program (FMP), which provided approximately 1 year of mentoring for at-risk, 10-year-old Latino children and their parents, offered individual mentoring, group educational sessions for children and parents, and group social/recreational activities. This study examined mothers' perceptions of the parent–child relationship and of family strength as measured by the Parent–Child Relationship Inventory (PCRI) and the Family Hardiness Index (FHI). Analysis focused on factors expected to contribute to variance in the outcome measures. Regression results indicated that involvement in parent group education predicted higher scores on the Support and Communication measures. Compared to the standardized samples used in the development of these measures, mothers, at the beginning of the program, scored lower on six of seven PCRI subscales and on the FHI. By the end of the program, mothers' scores on Support and Limit Setting had improved, no longer differing from the standardized norms. The overall findings suggest that parents of children in mentoring programs need services and parent education and that they can benefit from these. Future research should focus on careful design and evaluation of multifaceted mentoring programs that include parents.

scholarly journals Avoidant Addresses in Japanese Families Reflect Family Conflicts

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Yokotani
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Conflicts ◽  
The Family ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

The study focused on Avoidant Addresses (AAs) in Japanese families and investigated the links between daily use of AAs in the family and family conflicts. The participants were 329 Japanese college students. They reported forms of address used daily among each of their family members. They also rated the frequency of conflicts among each of their family members. The results show that parent-child relationships with AAs experienced significantly higher frequency of parent-child conflicts than those without. The families with AAs also experienced a higher frequency of family conflicts than those without. Use of AAs might be unacceptable in Japanese families and reflect parent-child and family conflicts.

scholarly journals Social and emotional learning for parents through Conscious Discipline

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-99
Author(s):  
Kristen E. Darling ◽  
Deborah Seok ◽  
Patti Banghart ◽  
Kerensa Nagle ◽  
Marybeth Todd ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Behavior ◽  
Challenging Behaviors ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Social And Emotional Learning ◽  
Emotional Learning ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine Conscious Discipline’s (CD) Parenting Education Curriculum (CD PEC), the parenting component of CD’s research-based social and emotional learning program. CD aims to change child behavior by changing how adults understand and manage their own behaviors and emotions. Researchers explored CD PEC’s association with improved parenting skills, parent–child relationships and child behavior and emotion management. Design/methodology/approach During pre- and post-site visits, parents in four Head Start programs completed the Attentive Parenting Survey (n=25) and interviews (n=19); and 20 staff were also interviewed. Findings Parents reported that CD PEC shifted their perspectives and practices for managing children’s challenging behaviors, improved parent–child relationships and resulted in decreased child behavior problems. Research limitations/implications The study was correlational, based on self-report, and had a small sample with no comparison group. Practical implications This study supports CD PEC as a means of shifting parenting practices, relationships and child behavior by focusing on adult social-emotional skills and self-regulation. Social implications This study provides preliminary evidence that addressing the social-emotional needs of adults is a viable step to helping children improve their social skills, emotion regulation and general behavior, which have all been linked to later academic and life success. Originality/value The paper studies improvements in parents’ emotion recognition and self-regulation before disciplining their children.

Equality and the Family

Family Values ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Brighouse ◽  
Adam Swift
Keyword(s):  
Equality Of Opportunity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Family ◽  
Familial Relationship ◽  
Fair Equality Of Opportunity ◽  
The One ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
The Way ◽  
Parent Child

This chapter sets out the various kinds of conflict between the value of equality and the value of those parent–child relationships that constitute the family. It offers two reasons not to pursue fair equality of opportunity all the way. On the one hand, we must be prepared for children of similar talent and ability raised by different parents to enjoy somewhat unfairly unequal prospects of achieving the rewards attached to different jobs, since the alternative would cost too much in terms of familial relationship goods. On the other hand, some unfairness in the distribution of those prospects could be beneficial for those who have unfairly less. In both cases, then, there are conflicts between fair equality of opportunity and other values.

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