HDFS 334 1st EditionFinal Exam Study Guide This is an incomplete list of possible topics that will be on the final exam. It is intended only tohelp you study SOME of the content that MAY be covered on the final.The final is a comprehensive exam that will include content that is about 50% exclusively fromthe last third of the course (since the last exam) and 50% that requires integration of information and themes from different times in the semester.Parenting Adolescents Describe characteristcs of dismissing parents, disapproving parents, laissez faire parents? (Gotman) ‐What is emoton coaching? Can you describe the steps? When Emoton Coaching is too challenging, what else can parents do? How is Gotman’s idea of emoton coaching similar and distnct to mindful parentng? To concepts supported by Kohn (unconditonal parentng) to Bret’s ideas of control? What effects does emoton coaching have on child development? (lecture) What is PMTO? What does it try to change and what evidence is there that it is effectve? (Forgatch & Paterson) Choose two of the common emotonal behavioral and/or mental health problems of adolescence and describe how the four key qualites of effectve parent child relatonships are ‐related to them. (Holden)Your friend reports suicidal thoughts. How should you respond? (Holden – not parentng, but important) Why might the period of adolescence be hardest on the parent? What advice might you, as a parentng expert, give to a parent of an adolescent? (Senior) What is parental monitoring and why is it so important in adolescence? How does it relate to “disclosure”? (lecture) What kind of parentng strategies are likely to be most related to disclosure? (lecture reading integraton) Describe how youth views of parental legitmate authority (and in what domains) might change over the course of childhood and adolescence. Middle Age Parents Failure to launch? Why might more than 1/3 of 18 29 year olds live at home with their parents? ‐How do parents feel about their 18 29 year olds living at home with them? (Lecture) ‐How can helicopter parents be helpful to their child and how can they be harmful? (Arnet, Kohn, Lecture) How does the transiton to college challenge youth AND parents?What 2 parentng strategies would you recommend MOST for parents of college age students? Why?(Arnet) Describe ways that overparentng can be thought of as coddling children. What is the evidence for this? Describe ways that overparentng can be thought of as control. What is the evidence for this? (Kohn) Non traditional Parenting Teen Parenting ‐ ‐What are some of the consequences of teenage childbearing, for the mother and for the child? (Ruedinger Cox) Why might school based programs be an effectve strategy for intervening with pregnant teens? ‐What is a weakness of this strategy? (Ruedinger Cox) Why, in Furstenberg’s view, does teen pregnancy remain a social problem? How does his view correspond with other informaton (e.g. Ruedinger Cox, lecture)? What is the long term outlook for children of teen mothers? (Furstenberg) ‐Why is teen parentng considered a social problem. How has this view changed over the past 50 years? (lecture, reading) What are some “more typical” characteristcs of how teen parent? How can we try to understand this beyond just the age of the mother (what other factors do we need to consider in explaining the parentng behavior of teen mothers)? What kinds of programs are more likely to work for teen mothers? Why?Non traditional Parenting Parenting with Developmentally Delayed Children ‐ ‐Describe how a parent’s cognitons (attitudes and beliefs) might influence parentng of ASD children.Which cognitons specifically? (Maljaars) Describe two specific parentng strategies/behaviors that differ for parents of children with and without ASD? (Maljaars). Non traditional Parenting – Homosexual Parents ‐Historically, parentng studies that focus on understanding the gendered role of parentng compare parentng of married couples with parentng of single parent homes. Why is this NOT the best way to study this queston? List and describe some of the confounding variables in those studies. (Biblarz & Stacey) What features of parentng does gender predict BETTER than either marriage or genetcs? (Biblarz & Stacey) In what ways does the research SEEM to indicate that two male parents differ from heterosexual parents? (Biblarz & Stacey) Argue for or against this statement “compared to all other family forms, families headed by married, biological parents are best for children”. Cite results of studies where applicable. (Biblarz & Stacey) e.Child MaltreatmentDescribe a model of how risks, poor parentng, child behavior problems and negatve parentchild interactons lead to child abuse. (Holden) Identfy the four types of child maltreatment. (Holden) What are the goals of the Nurse Family Partnership? Describe some of the outcomes of the Nurse Family Partnership program that suggest this program is having a positve effect on families and child development. Adoption and Foster Parenting Historically, how has the purpose and nature of adopton changed? How have characteristcs of children adopted in the United Sates changed? How have characteristcs of adoptve parents changed? IN what ways is the process of becoming an adoptve parents similar or different to that of a biological parent (beyond the obvious physical). How might this influence the transiton to parenthood? What is risk and what is protectve? How do the challenges that kids go through in understanding adopton pose challenges to parentng? How do the different developmental tasks of childhood and adolescence create different challenges for parentng of adopted children? In what ways are children in foster care at risk for emotonal and behavioral problems and at risk for social and relatonship problems? (Leve et al)Leve et al describe 8 programs with evidence that they are effectve for improving developmental outcomes for youth. Explain two programs and what the evidence is that they are effectve. (Leve et al) Describe why it is so important to have the right COMPARISON group when studying effects of being adopted on child development. What kinds of programs might be useful for enhancing skills of adoptve parents and outcomes of adoptve children. Is being in foster care a risk or protecton for child development? Describe why training in behavior management skills might be very important for foster parents.