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FCST 314- Child Development Interview/Observation Assignment Adolescents’ Relationships with Parents and PeersNote: This paper is due at the time and date listed on the syllabus. All late penalties noted on the syllabuswill be strictly enforced with no exceptions.Instructions: Select a family who has at least one child who is between the ages of 11 and 18. For this assignment, you will interview at least one parent (or guardian) in this family and you will also interview one adolescent. You will then write a short “interpretation piece” that integrates your interviews with class material. Further details are listed below.What to hand in (as one professional looking paper):1. A cover page, with your name, the title of the assignment, and the due date.2. All of your handwritten (or typed) notes from the interview. This interview is a semi-structured interview – all required questions are listed at the end of this document, but students may add additional questions of their own to elaborate on what interviewees are saying. If you have handwritten notes, you can scan them into the computer (or simply retype them).3. The consent form (which is posted on Blackboard as a separate document).4. An interpretation piece. This paper should be approximately 4-6 pages in length (12 point font, double spaced, 1-inch margins) and should follow approximate APA style. This paper should adhere to the following outline:- Introduction paragraph: Your paper should begin with a brief description of your family, including relevant descriptive information about the family (e.g., ages, family background, school status), who you interviewed within the family, and the location and times of your interview.- Two to three paragraphs that summarize the family’s unique experiences. What has it been like for your family as the teen has been going through adolescence? Is there a lot of conflict between parents and adolescents? How do adolescents feel about their peer relationships? Who do they spend the most time with, their parents or their peers? What is this family’s unique challenges, accomplishments, and struggles? How does this family’s social context (e.g., socioeconomic status, cultural background, neighborhood environment, family support) contribute to their experience?- Two to three paragraphs tying in the information that you have obtained from your interviews with what you have learned in class and in your textbook. Feel free to integrate other scholarlysources as well. Use examples and tie in key course concepts. Conclude with your thoughts on ways that this family’s experience reflected what we have been learning about in class, and also on ways where this family had experiences that are different from what we have been learning about in class.Interview QuestionsStudents: Please ask your families these questions and write down their answers as you go along. I suggest bringing a notebook so that you can write down additional information that might not fit on this sheet. If they agree to it, you may also wish to tape record them and transcribe the interview later.You MUST read the script at the top of the interview sheet first before interviewing them. Make sure that the participants are in a comfortable and private room before starting the interview. You MUST have obtained consent from both the parent and the adolescent before beginning the interview. Parents and adolescents MUST be interviewed separately.Interview with ParentsPlease Read First: Thank you for agreeing to do this interview with me. As we went over in the consent form, I am interviewing families as an assignment for my Adolescent Development class at Montclair State University. If you do not want to answer any of the questions, please just say so and you don’t have to answer it. Are you ready to begin?1. How many children do you have and what are their ages?2. From your perspective as a parent, how is being a parent to a teenager different from being the parent of a younger child?3. How has your relationship with _________adolescent being interviewed_______ changed since she/he has become a teenager?4. How often do you and _________adolescent being interviewed_______ have fights or disagreements, and what are they usually about?5. How has _________adolescent being interviewed_______’s relationships with his/her peers changed since she/he has become a teenager?6. Do you know _________adolescent being interviewed_______’s friends fairly well? Do you like them? What type of influence do you think that they have on him/her?7. In your opinion, what is different about the experience of teenagers today, as opposed to when youwere younger?8. What do you think that it means to be a good parent of a teenager?9. If you could change anything about your relationship with _________adolescent being interviewed_______, what would it be?10. What is the best part of being a parent of a teenager?Interview with AdolescentsPlease Read First: Thank you for agreeing to do this interview with me. As we went over in the consent form, I am interviewing families as an assignment for my Adolescent Development class at Montclair State University. If you do not want to answer any of the questions, please just say so and you don’t have to answer it. Are you ready to begin?1. How old are you and what grade are you in at school?2. How has your relationship with your parents changed during the past few years?3. How much time do you spend with your family, and what type of things do you do when you are together?4. How often do you and your parents have fights or disagreements, and what are they usually about?5. How has your relationship with your friends changed during the past few years? 6. How much time do you usually spend with your friends, and what type of things do you do when you are together?7. In your opinion, what are some of the issues facing teenagers today, that you think their parents might have a hard time understanding?8. What do you think that it means to be a good parent of a teenager?9. If you could change anything about your relationship with your parent, what would it be?10. What is the hardest part of being __________ years old?11. What is the best part of being ___________ years


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