Parental Monitoring of Adolescents

Parental Monitoring of Adolescents: Current Perspectives for Researchers and Practitioners
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos (Editor), James Jaccard (Editor), Patricia Dittus (Editor)
Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press; 1 edition (October 4, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0231140819
ISBN-13: 978-0231140812
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches

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.

Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Vincent Guilamo-Ramos and James Jaccard

Part I: Contemporary Issues in Parental Monitoring
1. Parental Monitoring: A Critical Examination of the Research, by Håkan Stattin and Margaret Kerr
2. Developmental and Interactional Antecedents of Monitoring in Early Adolescence, by Robert D. Laird and Matthew M. Marrero
3. Impediments to Parental Monitoring in the After-School Hours: A Qualitative Analysis, by Deborah Belle and Brenda Phillips
4: Cross-Cultural Analysis of Parental Monitoring and Adolescent Problem Behavior: Theoretical Challenges of Model Replication When East Meets West , by Sonia Venkatraman and Thomas J. Dishion
5. When Is Parenting Over? Examining Parental Monitoring and High-risk Alcohol Consumption in Young Adult College Students, by Rob Turrisi and Anne E. Ray
6. From Research to Practice: Development and Scaling Up of ImPACT, by a Parental Monitoring Intervention for African American Parents of Adolescents, by Jennifer S. Galbraith and Bonita Stanton
7. A Three-Process System of Parental Monitoring, by James Jaccard, by Vincent Guilamo-Ramos

Part II. Expert Perspectives on Parental Monitoring

List of Contributors
Index