ABSTRACT
Parenting receives growing amounts of attention from researchers, and what was once considered chiefly an art is now also recognized for being a science. Our knowledge of parenting has increased significantly in the last few decades; new developments continue to happen daily. The Encyclopedia of Parenting provides, in reference book format, what we now know about parents, parenting, and the parent-child relationship, synthesized in some 250 alphabetically arranged entries. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides an authoritative overview of a particular topic.
Subjects covered include: child activity; child outcomes; child states; parent behaviours; parental situations; external and community factors; systematic concerns; the transition to parenthood; available resources; persons who have added to our knowledge of the field. Entries draw on a wide range of disciplines, including psychology, education, and sociology. Each entry closes with a bibliography, and the volume concludes with a selected list of works for further reading.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |4 pages
Introduction
letter |45 pages
A
entry |3 pages
Abuse, child.
entry |3 pages
Academic achievement.
entry |3 pages
Acceptance, parental.
entry |3 pages
Adler, Alfred
entry |3 pages
Adolescent parenthood.
entry |3 pages
Adolescent pregnancy.
entry |3 pages
Adolescent separation.
entry |3 pages
Adoption.
entry |3 pages
Adult children.
entry |2 pages
Advocacy.
entry |3 pages
Affectivity, positive and negative.
entry |3 pages
African American parents.
entry |3 pages
After-school child care.
entry |3 pages
Aggression, childhood.
entry |2 pages
Aids/HIV.
entry |3 pages
AIDS/HIV, adolescent.
entry |3 pages
AIDS/HIV, pediatric.
entry |3 pages
Alliance, parenting.
entry |3 pages
Asian American parents.
entry |3 pages
Attachment, secure.
entry |3 pages
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
entry |2 pages
Authority, parental.
entry |3 pages
Autism.
letter |13 pages
B
entry |3 pages
Birth order.
entry |3 pages
Biting.
entry |3 pages
Blaming, parent.
entry |3 pages
Brazelton, T. Berry
entry |2 pages
Breastfeeding.
entry |3 pages
Bullying.
letter |39 pages
C
entry |2 pages
Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan)
entry |3 pages
Child care.
entry |3 pages
Chores.
entry |3 pages
Cleft lip and palate.
entry |2 pages
Colic.
entry |3 pages
Communication.
entry |3 pages
Community.
entry |3 pages
Competition.
entry |2 pages
Compliance.
entry |2 pages
Conflict, interparental.
entry |3 pages
Conflict resolution.
entry |3 pages
Conscience.
entry |2 pages
Consequences, natural and logical.
entry |3 pages
Consistency.
entry |2 pages
Control strategies.
entry |2 pages
Cooperative Extension Service.
entry |2 pages
Critical periods.
entry |2 pages
Crying.
entry |3 pages
Cultural
entry |3 pages
Cultural context.
entry |3 pages
Custody.
letter |40 pages
D
entry |3 pages
Deaf children, parenting.
entry |3 pages
Deaf parents.
entry |3 pages
Death, understanding of.
entry |3 pages
Death of a child.
entry |3 pages
Death of a parent.
entry |4 pages
Delinquency, juvenile.
entry |3 pages
Depression, postpartum.
entry |3 pages
Depression in children.
entry |3 pages
Depression in parents.
entry |2 pages
Developmentally Appropriate Practice.
entry |3 pages
Dimensions of Temperament Survey-Revised
entry |3 pages
Disability, learning.
entry |3 pages
Disability, physical.
entry |3 pages
Discipline.
entry |3 pages
Distancing strategies.
entry |3 pages
Divorced families.
entry |3 pages
Domestic labor.
entry |2 pages
Donor insemination.
entry |2 pages
Dreikurs, Rudolf
entry |3 pages
Dual-earner families.
letter |15 pages
E
entry |3 pages
Eating behavior, children and
entry |3 pages
Eating disorders
entry |1 pages
Education, parenting
entry |3 pages
Emotion language
entry |3 pages
Empathy
entry |2 pages
Employment, early maternal.
entry |3 pages
Empowerment
entry |3 pages
Enuresis
letter |33 pages
F
entry |3 pages
Failure to thrive.
entry |3 pages
Family-centered services.
entry |3 pages
Family council.
entry |3 pages
Family loyalty.
entry |2 pages
Family preservation.
entry |3 pages
Family-school partnerships.
entry |3 pages
Family size.
entry |3 pages
Family support.
entry |2 pages
Family systems.
entry |3 pages
Family therapy.
entry |3 pages
Fathering.
entry |3 pages
Fear.
entry |3 pages
Feminism.
entry |2 pages
Fertilization, in vitro.
entry |2 pages
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
entry |2 pages
Floortime.
entry |3 pages
Foster parenting.
entry |2 pages
Freud, Anna
letter |15 pages
G
entry |3 pages
Gay fathers.
entry |2 pages
Gender socialization.
entry |3 pages
Genetic disorders.
entry |3 pages
Gifted children.
entry |3 pages
Ginott, Haim
entry |2 pages
Goodness of fit model.
entry |3 pages
Grandparenting.
entry |3 pages
Guilt.
letter |12 pages
H
entry |3 pages
Head Start.
entry |3 pages
Hispanic/Latino parents.
entry |2 pages
HOME Inventory.
entry |3 pages
Home schooling.
entry |3 pages
Home visitation.
entry |3 pages
Hospitalization.
letter |18 pages
I
entry |3 pages
Identity development.
entry |3 pages
Illness, chronic, in children.
entry |2 pages
Imagination.
entry |3 pages
Immunization.
entry |3 pages
Indigenous Peoples parent roles.
entry |2 pages
Infertility.
entry |2 pages
Instrumental versus expressive functions.
entry |4 pages
Intergenerational parenting.
entry |3 pages
Intuitive parenting.
letter |2 pages
J
entry |2 pages
Jealousy
letter |3 pages
K
entry |3 pages
Kinship care.
letter |11 pages
L
entry |3 pages
Language development
entry |3 pages
Lesbian mothers
entry |2 pages
Limit setting
entry |2 pages
Listening
entry |3 pages
Literacy
entry |2 pages
Locke, John
letter |31 pages
M
entry |3 pages
Marital boundaries.
entry |3 pages
Marital interaction.
entry |2 pages
Mathematics.
entry |2 pages
Media, mass.
entry |3 pages
Mediation, parent-child.
entry |2 pages
Meld.
entry |3 pages
Mental illness, children.
entry |3 pages
Mental retardation.
entry |3 pages
Military families.
entry |2 pages
Misbehavior.
entry |3 pages
Money and children.
entry |2 pages
Moral development.
entry |3 pages
Mothering.
entry |2 pages
Motor development.
entry |3 pages
Multiples.
entry |3 pages
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.
entry |3 pages
Mutuality.
letter |14 pages
N
entry |3 pages
Narratives, personal.
entry |2 pages
National Extension Parent Education Model (NEPEM).
entry |3 pages
Nature versus nurture.
entry |3 pages
Nightmares.
entry |2 pages
Night terrors.
entry |2 pages
Nighttime fears.
entry |3 pages
Night wakings.
entry |2 pages
Nurturance.
letter |3 pages
O
entry |3 pages
Obesity.
letter |40 pages
P
entry |3 pages
Pain, children and adolescents with.
entry |3 pages
Paradigms, parenting.
entry |1 pages
Parents Anonymous.
entry |1 pages
Parents Without Partners.
entry |3 pages
Peace education.
entry |3 pages
Peer influence.
entry |2 pages
Pets and children.
entry |3 pages
Physical activity.
entry |3 pages
Physical fitness.
entry |3 pages
Physical punishment.
entry |3 pages
Play.
entry |2 pages
Playground skills.
entry |3 pages
Popularity.
entry |4 pages
Poverty.
entry |3 pages
Premature birth.
entry |3 pages
Prevention.
entry |3 pages
Prison, parents in.
entry |3 pages
Problem solving.
entry |3 pages
Prosocial behavior.
entry |3 pages
Psychological testing.
entry |3 pages
Puberty.
letter |24 pages
R
entry |3 pages
Racial identity.
entry |2 pages
Recognition/encouragement.
entry |3 pages
Reconstituted families.
entry |3 pages
Religious development.
entry |2 pages
Reproductive technology, assisted.
entry |3 pages
Resiliency in children.
entry |3 pages
Resiliency in parents.
entry |3 pages
Rituals.
entry |2 pages
Rogers, Fred
entry |3 pages
Role strain.
entry |2 pages
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
entry |2 pages
Routines.
entry |2 pages
Rules, implicit.
entry |3 pages
Runaway children.
letter |62 pages
S
entry |2 pages
Scaffolding.
entry |3 pages
Scapegoating.
entry |3 pages
School.
entry |3 pages
Self-care.
entry |3 pages
Self-esteem.
entry |3 pages
Self-fulfilling prophecy.
entry |3 pages
Separation anxiety.
entry |3 pages
Sex education.
entry |2 pages
Sex roles.
entry |3 pages
Sexuality, adolescent.
entry |3 pages
Sexual offenders, youthful.
entry |3 pages
Shame.
entry |2 pages
Shyness.
entry |3 pages
Siblings.
entry |3 pages
Single parents.
entry |3 pages
Skinner, B. F.
entry |2 pages
Smoking.
entry |3 pages
Social competence.
entry |3 pages
Social context.
entry |3 pages
Social support, informal.
entry |3 pages
Sociocultural background.
entry |3 pages
Socioeconomic status.
entry |3 pages
Spirituality.
entry |2 pages
Spock, Benjamin
entry |2 pages
Spoiling.
entry |3 pages
Sport.
entry |2 pages
Standards of care, minimum.
entry |3 pages
Stepparents.
entry |3 pages
Stress, parental.
entry |3 pages
Styles, parenting.
entry |3 pages
Substance abuse, parents.
entry |3 pages
Substance use, children.
entry |2 pages
Sudden Infant Death
entry |2 pages
Suicide in children.
entry |2 pages
Surrogate motherhood.
letter |25 pages
T
entry |3 pages
Teacher training.
entry |2 pages
Television viewing.
entry |3 pages
Television violence.
entry |2 pages
Temperament.
entry |3 pages
Temper tantrums.
entry |2 pages
Throwaway children.
entry |3 pages
Thumb sucking.
entry |2 pages
Toilet learning.
entry |2 pages
Touching.
entry |3 pages
Toys.
entry |2 pages
Traditions.
entry |2 pages
Transition to parenthood.
entry |3 pages
Transition to school.
entry |3 pages
Triangulation.
letter |2 pages
U
entry |2 pages
Urban parenting.
letter |8 pages
V
entry |2 pages
Victim-centered discipline.
entry |3 pages
Violence, community.
entry |2 pages
Vulnerable Child Syndrome.
entry |2 pages
Vygotsky, Lev Semenovich
letter |2 pages
W
entry |2 pages
Whining.