FRHD 3040 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Parenting, Personal Boundaries, Dynamic Equilibrium

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

Document Summary

Parent"s characteristics/ -> child"s characteristics/ attitudes/goals/strategies compliance/outcomes: correlate measurement of parent and child"s characteristics, correlations cannot infer causality. Lecture 2: bilateral models & social relational theory. > each have their own opinion on how to raise children, care for the elderly, etc. Traditional approach to change: linear modelling, linear thinking. > outcome: if i make this much intervention, i will get that much outcome. Comfort with child influence: acceptance of bidirectional reality. Implications for parenting: unilateral, parents determine children"s outcomes, bilateral, parents influence children in a close, long term relationship context, includes children"s agency and influence of children"s parents. From unidirectional, interactional, to relational perspectives: unidirectional - social learning, parenting styles, and parental dimensions, interactional - reciprocal exchanges of parent and child behaviours, relational - parent-child interactions occur within a distinctive, enduring, and interdependent relationship context. Importance: understanding dynamics of parent-child social interactions, basis of new interventions focuses on changing relationships rather than on changing.