PSYCH315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Foster Care, Life Skills, Hidden Curriculum
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Authoritative: high on control and high on warmth, most positive parenting style, will be on the exam!, however, mixed results culture, adolescent is self confident, self esteem, higher success, more mature, etc. Permissive: allowing to do all they want, 2 types: Ignore the adolescent, isn"t supportive: low control, low warmth, wrapped up in their own problems, tends to be cyclical, adolescent does poorly in school, has low self-esteem, attention seeking behaviour. Comes with brain"s maturity: advances as they mature. Skills become much worse when parents are uninvolved or fighting against the process. In all parenting styles, there will be conflict: seeking independence and sense of self, might be intervening in wrong decisions being made. Arguments: freedom, curfew, choice, etc, telephone use, what"s on the cell phone, who are they talking to, internet use, etc, facebook, vaccines/health, eating habits, driving licence.
