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Kennedy, Mark; Betts, Lucy; Dunn, Thomas; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund; Underwood, Jean – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Recent re-conceptualisation of paternal involvement (Pleck, J. H. (2010). Paternal involvement: Revised conceptualization and theoretical linkages with child outcomes. In M. Lamb (Ed.), "The role of the father in child development" (5th ed., pp. 67-107). London: Wiley), while proving fruitful, has yet to be applied to investigations into…
Descriptors: Models, Preschool Education, Attachment Behavior, Child Development
Fawcett, Jacqueline – 1976
The conceptual framework of the family presented in this paper views the family as a reality in itself. The four-dimensional energy field that is the family system is a living open system, a dynamic whole engaged in mutual and simultaneous interaction with a four-dimensional energy field that is the environment. The family system is patterned and…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Family (Sociological Unit), Interaction Process Analysis, Literature Reviews
Patterson, G. R. – 1973
This report is an attempt to analyze the aggression which occurs within extended dyadic interchanges of parent and child, husband and wife, or sibling and peers. An argument is made for a "performance" theory of children's noxious behaviors based on the assumption that most children, exposed to modeling and reinforcing contingencies through which…
Descriptors: Adults, Aggression, Children, Conditioning
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Koegel, Robert L.; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1996
This study assessed collateral effects during unstructured dinnertime family interactions of two different paradigms for training parents of 17 children with autism. One taught individual target behaviors serially, and the other taught the pivotal responses (PRT) of motivation and responsivity to multiple cues. Results suggested the PRT…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Cues, Family Environment
Dreitzel, Hans Peter, Ed. – 1973
This collection of essays on socialization theory and research attempts to illustrate a new tendency to see socialization as an interaction process which involves the child as an active partner, rather than as a process by which a child is manipulated. The 13 essays are divided into four categories: (1) Alternate Approaches to Socialization…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Child Rearing, Collective Settlements
Schaefer, Earl S. – 1974
Professional support is urged for early and continuing family care and education of the child and the need for a life-time and life-space or ecological perspective in contrast to a professional and institutional perspective on child care and education. The current focus in psychology on the individual, frequently without adequate analysis of the…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Environmental Influences