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.
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Contemporary Issues in Parental Monitoring
- 1. Parental Monitoring: A Critical Examination of the Research
- 2. Developmental and Interactional Antecedents of Monitoring in Early Adolescence
- 3. Impediments to Parental Monitoring in the After-School Hours: A Qualitative Analysis
- 4. Cross-Cultural Analysis of Parental Monitoringand Adolescent Problem Behavior: Theoretical Challenges of Model Replication When East Meets West
- 5. When Is Parenting Over?: Examining Parental Monitoring and High-risk Alcohol Consumption in Young Adult College Students
- 6. From Research to Practice: Development and Scaling Up of ImPACT, a Parental Monitoring Intervention for African American Parents of Adolescents
- 7. A Three-Process System of Parental Monitoring and Supervision
- Part II: Expert Perspectives onParental Monitoring
- List of Contributors
- Index
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