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Parental Monitoring of Adolescents: Current Perspectives for Researchers and Practitioners
Contributor(s): Guilamo-Ramos, Vincent (Editor), Jaccard, James (Editor), Dittus, Patricia (Editor)
ISBN: 0231140800     ISBN-13: 9780231140805
Publisher: Columbia University Press
OUR PRICE:   $118.80  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2010
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Social Work
- Psychology | Psychotherapy - Couples & Family
- Psychology | Developmental - Adolescent
Dewey: 306.874
LCCN: 2010023732
Physical Information: 312 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Topical - Family
 
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Publisher Description:
The close supervision of adolescents dramatically reduces the incidence of risky sexual behavior, drug and alcohol use, and other activities that could negatively affect one's health and well-being. Because of the strong correlation between parental monitoring and a child's welfare, social workers, psychologists, child development specialists, and other professionals who work with children now incorporate monitoring into their programs and practice.

A definitive resource providing the best research and techniques for productive supervision within the home, this volume defines and develops the conceptual, methodological, and practical areas of parental monitoring and monitoring research, locating the right balance of closeness and supervision while also remaining sensitive to ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Assembled by leading experts on childrearing and healthy parent-child communication, Parental Monitoring of Adolescents identifies the conditions that best facilitate parental knowledge, ideal interventions for high-risk youth, and the factors that either help or hinder the monitoring of an adolescent's world. The volume also sets a course for future research, establishing a new framework that evaluates the nature and approach of monitoring within the parent-adolescent relationship and the particular social realities of everyday life.