FRHD 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Health Canada, Child Development, Conflict Resolution

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3040
• Professor: David Green

Document Summary

Equifinality and link to a program of discipline. Promote thinking, reasoning, and making choices regarding actions. Use discipline to help children develop an internal structure. Intervention: parent training programs aimed at higher risk families: positive parenting program (triple p) Prevention: aimed at nonclinical families: parent effectiveness training (pet) Democratic approaches to parenting: encouragement, setting appropriate limits, practicing mutual respect for family members, collective decision making. I(cid:373)pa(cid:272)t of the fa(cid:373)ily syste(cid:373) i(cid:374) shapi(cid:374)g the (cid:272)hild"s e(cid:373)ergi(cid:374)g patter(cid:374) of (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour: life script or plan. Faulty conclusion about self, support faulty scripts that maintain conclusion. Faulty script lead to need for belongingness. A(cid:374)alyzi(cid:374)g goals of (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)"s (cid:373)is(cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour: gaining attention, gaining power, gaining revenge, displaying inadequacy. Logical consequences of behaviour rather than rewards or punishment. Encouragement instead of reward or punishment: timing and condition of encouragement and reward are different. Parenting acting as counsellors: active listening, (cid:862)i(cid:863) (cid:373)essages, negotiation skills and conflict resolution.