scholarly journals Parenting and Child Development: A Relational Health Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-59
Author(s):  
Cynthia A. Frosch ◽  
Sarah J. Schoppe-Sullivan ◽  
D. David O’Banion
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Child Outcomes ◽  
Relational Health ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Parent Health ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Early Parent ◽  
Parent Child

A child’s development is embedded within a complex system of relationships. Among the many relationships that influence children’s growth and development, perhaps the most influential is the one that exists between parent and child. Recognition of the critical importance of early parent-child relationship quality for children’s socioemotional, cognitive, neurobiological, and health outcomes has contributed to a shift in efforts to identify relational determinants of child outcomes. Recent efforts to extend models of relational health to the field of child development highlight the role that parent, child, and contextual factors play in supporting the development and maintenance of healthy parent-child relationships. This review presents a parent-child relational health perspective on development, with an emphasis on socioemotional outcomes in early childhood, along with brief attention to obesity and eating behavior as a relationally informed health outcome. Also emphasized here is the parent–health care provider relationship as a context for supporting healthy outcomes within families as well as screening and intervention efforts to support optimal relational health within families, with the goal of improving mental and physical health within our communities.

scholarly journals Parental Education and the Need to Train Parents in 21st Century

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreea Sitoiu
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The One ◽  
Parent Child

The challenges of the 21st century impose on today's parent the need to take part in a new type of education, namely, parental education. This type of education takes into account the discipline of the parent, by providing relevant information on: the characteristics of children according to their age, parental typologies with the advantages and disadvantages of each, parenting strategies that ensure streamlining the parent-child relationship, as well as the obstacles encountered in the process of raising and educating the child. The multitude of information stated above, arouses the interest for training parents in the field of parenting, but also the need to implement training programs with a central theme, parental education. Following the application of a focus group interview, which was attended by eight parents whose children are part of primary school, it was found that they are aware of the shortcomings they have, but also of the mistakes they make as parents, concluding that a training program in the field of parental education would be a real guide for parenting. In agreement with the current society, a technological society, it is necessary to design and implement a training program that aims, on the one hand: issues related to parenting, on the other hand, issues related to technological resources, establishing the following objectives: to make some correspondences between the particularities of the children and the parental practices, in the technological era; streamlining the parent-child relationship in the digital age; openness to the use of digital tools; providing the necessary resources for an optimal adaptation of the parent to the digital age.

The Child, His Parents and the Physician

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1955 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-142
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
Emotional Disturbances ◽  
Social And Emotional Development ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
The Many ◽  
Parent Child

This book deals with the basic concepts of the child's social and emotional development, the adjustments the parents must help him to make throughout his childhood, and the role the doctor may play in this parent-child relationship. It is written for the physician in the hope that it will give him a deeper understanding of human behavior and make him feel more comfortable and fluent in dealing with the many parental and childhood emotional disturbances that come to his office.

Reducing Trauma from Behind Bars: Enhancing Parent-Child Attachment Through a Digitally Distributed Reading Program

2021 ◽  
pp. 003288552110481
Author(s):  
David A. McLeod ◽  
Angela B. Pharris ◽  
Susan Marcus-Mendoza ◽  
Rachael A. M. Winkles ◽  
Rachel Chapman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Program Effectiveness ◽  
Child Outcomes ◽  
Reading Program ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Incarcerated Parents ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Sense Of Involvement ◽  
Parent Child

Incarceration impacts families by disrupting routine attachment, creating negative consequences for both the parent and child. This article examines the use of an intervention videoing incarcerated parents reading to their children and then delivering those videos to improve child outcomes. Using a mixed-methods approach, a total of 587 surveys were completed by program participants and analyzed for parental perceptions of the program effectiveness. The intervention appeared to increase the frequency of correspondence between the parent and child, improved the sense of parent-child relationship, and increased a sense of involvement, attachment, and connectedness.

scholarly journals Effects of parenting interventions for mothers with depressive symptoms and an infant: systematic review and meta-analysis

BJPsych Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Signe B. Rayce ◽  
Ida S. Rasmussen ◽  
Mette Skovgaard Væver ◽  
Maiken Pontoppidan
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Parenting Interventions ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Supportive Parenting ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Parent Child

Background Postpartum depression is common in the perinatal period and poses a risk for the development of the infant and the mother–infant relationship. Infancy is a critical developmental period of life and supportive parenting is crucial for healthy development, however, the effects of interventions aimed at improving parenting among mothers with depression are uncertain. Aims To assess the effects of parenting interventions on parent–child relationship and child development among mothers with depressive symptoms with 0–12-month-old infants. Method We conducted a systematic review with the inclusion criteria: (a) randomised controlled trials of structured psychosocial parenting interventions for women with depressive symptoms and a child aged 0–12 months in Western Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, (b) minimum three sessions with at least half of these delivered postnatally and (c) outcomes relating to the parent–child-relationship and/or child development. Publications were extracted from 10 databases in September 2018 and supplemented with grey search and hand search. We assessed risk of bias, calculated effect sizes and conducted meta-analysis. Results Eight papers representing seven trials were included. We conducted meta-analysis on the post-intervention parent–child relationship. The analysis included six studies and showed no significant effect. For individual study outcomes, no significant effects on the majority of both the parent–child relationship and child development outcomes were reported. Conclusions No evidence of the effect of parenting interventions for mothers with depressive symptoms was found on the parent–child relationship and child development. Larger studies with follow-up assessments are needed, and future reviews should examine the effects in non-Western countries.

Residential Arrangements and Children’s School Engagement

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 1104-1122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nele Havermans ◽  
An Katrien Sodermans ◽  
Koen Matthijs
Keyword(s):  
School Engagement ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Child Outcomes ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Parental Time ◽  
Selection Mechanisms ◽  
Parent Child

The increase in shared residential arrangements is driven by the belief that it is in the best interest of the child. The maintenance of contact between child and parents can mitigate negative consequences of separation. However, selection mechanisms may account for a positive relationship between shared residential arrangements and child outcomes. This study examines the association between children’s residential arrangements and their school engagement, focusing on the parent–child relationship as a mediator and selection mechanisms. Structural equation models are performed on a sample of 973 secondary school pupils with separated parents from the Leuven Adolescents and Families Study (LAFS; 2008-2011). The results suggest that more parental time is related with a better parent–child relationship, and this leads indirectly to higher school engagement. However, shared residence may also have negative consequences for children and is certainly not the only residential arrangement in which children have a good relationship with both parents.

scholarly journals From the Parents to the Child: The Ethical Dimension

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-130
Author(s):  
Viviane Chetrit-Vatine
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Ethical Dimension ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Adult World ◽  
Parent Child

Abstract In light of the questioning related to contemporary parental combinations, I maintain that whatever these combinations may be, in the majority of cases a good enough mixture of life and death sexual drives, of ethical ability and of vital narcissism, will exist in the parents’ psyche, even though proper genital sexuality has been either partially or completely excluded from procreation. This good enough mix lies at the foundation of a good enough child development for what concerns the unavoidable impact of the parental environment upon the child’s psyche’s formation. I will use the Oedipus’s “anamnesis”, describing the potential dynamics of any parents’ psyche through this myth. I will insist upon the ethical dimension, while, following Emanuel Levinas, I will define ethics as a responsibility for the other, an ability originating, in my view, in the feminine/ maternal of any human being and resulting first from the traces left in the infant and then the child’s psyche’s zone of infinity by the enigm-ethic messages coming from the adult world, which is in charge of him or her. Respecting this emotionally loaded asymmetric responsibility in the parent/child relationship, in any kind of parental constellation, facilitates a sense of singularity, of identity and of belonging in the child.

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