Parenting Approaches and Styles Flashcards
What are the 4 parenting styles?
- Authoritative
- Authoritarian
- Permission
- Uninvolved or Neglectful
Define Authoritative Parenting
Having high levels of warmth and high levels of structure
What are the outcomes for authoritative parenting?
- higher academic achievement
- less likely to exhibit behavior problems or engage in risky behaviors
- more cooperative with siblings, peers, adults
- positive psychosocial maturity
- Higher reasoning skills, empathy, altruism
Define Authoritarian Parenting
Low levels of warmth, high levels of structure and control
What are the outcomes for authoritarian parenting?
- Develop a negative self-concept
- Believe they are unloveable
- Become rebellious or self-destructive
Define Permission Parenting
High levels of warmth, low levels of structure
What are the outcomes for permissive parenting?
- lower academic achievement
- lack of impulse control
- less mature, self-reliant, socially responsible and independent
- Diminished self-regulatory abilities
Define uninvolved or neglectful parenting
Low levels of warmth, low levels of structure
What are the outcomes for uninvolved parenting?
- feel unimportant
- engage in attention seeking behaviors
- withdraw
What is the “no-lose method of conflict resolution”?
- Describe the problem
- Generate possible resolutions
- Assessing possible solutions
- Determining the best solution
- Carrying out the decision
- Performing a follow-up assessment
What is the appropriate way to discipline a child?
- Guide the children to desired behaviors
- Can’t say “stop, don’t do that, no” it doesn’t teach them the “why”
- Tell the kids what they can do
- rules and discipline should be structured
- build self-regulation and self-efficacy
- develop social skills and behaviors
- should be positive, reasonable, and consistent
Define helicopter parents
Someone who rescues children form doing hard things; thinking they should just do it themselves
Define praise
Praise is a value judgement and is often tied to the outcome of the child’s performance
Define encouragement
Encouragement can help reinforce our children’s self-esteem and inspire self-reflection
Define validation
Someone who confirms another person is right, or that their feelings matter
Define induction
Increasing a child’s awareness of the likely consequences of their actions
What are the foul goals of misbehavior?
- Attention
- Power and Control
- Revenge
- Inadequacy
If you feel annoyed, the child’s goal is ____?
Attention
- a need for contact or a belonging
- want to feel loved and acknowledgement
If you feel beaten, threatened, or intimidated, a child’s goal is ____?
Power and Control
- kids want a sense of control and autonomy over their environment in some way
If you feel wronged or hut, a child’s goal is ___?
Revenge
- a child needs protection and to be shown love and empathy
If you feel incapable of helping the child in any way and want to step in and do it for him, the child’s goal is ___?
Inadequacy
- kids need time to regroup
What are the four pluses and a wish?
- Smile
- Relaxed body language
- Say the child’s name
- Compliment the child
- Make a request of the child
What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
- Physiological
- Safety
- Love and Belonging
- Esteem
- Self-Actualization
