What Can Parents Do?: New Insights into the Role of Parents in Adolescent Problem BehaviorISBN: 978-0-470-72363-0
Hardcover
304 pages
April 2008
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About the Editors vii
List of Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: What’s Changed in Research on Parenting and
Adolescent Problem Behavior and What Needs to Change? 1
Margaret Kerr, Håkan Stattin and Rutger C. M. E.
Engels
PART 1: ADOLESCENTS AS ACTIVE AGENTS 9
1 Adolescents’ Agency in Information Management 11
Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver and Sheila K. Marshall
2 Relational Implications of Secrecy and Concealment in
Parent–Adolescent Relationships 43
Catrin Finkenauer, Rutger C. M. E. Engels and Kaska E.
Kubacka
3 Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (Your Mom and Dad):
Disclosure and Nondisclosure in Adolescent–parent
Relationships 65
Judith G. Smetana and Aaron Metzger
PART 2: THE ROLES OF ADOLESCENT AGENCY AND PARENTING EFFORTS IN RELATIONSHIPS AND ADJUSTMENT 89
4 Parents React to Adolescent Problem Behaviors by Worrying More
and Monitoring Less 91
Margaret Kerr, Håkan Stattin and Vilmante
Pakalniskiene
5 Vicissitudes of Parenting Adolescents: Daily Variations in
Parental Monitoring and the Early Emergence of Drug Use 113
Thomas J. Dishion, Bernadette Marie Bullock and Jeff
Kiesner
6 Reciprocal Development of Parent–adolescent Support and
Adolescent Problem Behaviors 135
Susan J. T. Branje, William W. Hale III and Wim H. J.
Meeus
7 Linkages between Parenting and Peer Relationships: A Model for
Parental Management of Adolescents’ Peer Relationships
163
Nina S. Mounts
8 From Coercion to Positive Parenting: Putting Divorced Mothers
in Charge of Change 191
Marion S. Forgatch, Zintars G. Beldavs, Gerald R. Patterson and
David S. DeGarmo
PART 3: LESSONS FROM PARENTING RESEARCH ON YOUNGER CHILDREN 211
9 Stepping Up without Overstepping: Disentangling Parenting
Dimensions and their Implications for Adolescent Adjustment
213
Wendy S. Grolnick, Krista L. Beiswenger and Carrie E.
Price
10 What is the Nature of Effective Parenting? It Depends
239
Joan E. Grusec
11 Positive Parenting and Positive Characteristics and Values in
Children 259
Marc H. Bornstein
Index 285