ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on increasing well-being by enhancing parent–child relationships. Children whose parents adopt an authoritative parenting style show high levels of well-being. Authoritative parenting skills include making and maintaining a good parent–child relationship, accommodating to each child’s particular temperament, nurturing and rewarding prosocial behaviour, reducing opportunities for problem behaviour and discouraging it, using problem-solving and negotiation skills with adolescents, and being a good, consistent role model. Specific skills, based on research findings from the fields of parent training and family therapy, that are effective in helping parents adopt an authoritative parenting style are described.
