CLDP 3338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: International Adoption, Open Adoption, Job Sharing

• School: UT-Dallas
• Department: Child Learning and Development
• Course: CLDP 3338
• Professor: John Santrock

Document Summary

Reciprocal socialization and the family as a system. Indirect how relationship between parents mediates way parents act towards adolescents: happily married sensitive, warm, affectionate, positive family climate adolescents" positive engagement with spouses. Adolescents" and emerging adults" relationships with their parents. Parents as managers: monitors of adolescents" social relationships as social initiators and arrangers. Parenting styles: four styles, authoritarian: restrictive, punitive style requiring adolescents to follow direction and respect work/effort. Do what i say or else : adolescents suffer social incompetence, and anxiety over social comparison; fail to initiate activity and poor communication skills, authoritative: encourages adolescents to be independent but still placing limits and controls with verbal exchange. Let"s discuss it : adolescents are socially competent, self-reliant and responsible, neglectful: parent is uninvolved in the adolescent life, adolescents are socially incompetent, lack self-control, don"t handle independence well, lack of parental monitoring.