Table of Contents

PART ONE: KEY CONCEPTS
Parenting – An Introduction - Masud Hoghughi
The Social Context of Parenting - David Utting and Gillian Pugh
Parenting in Social and Economic Adversity - Christine Puckering
Parenting across the Lifespan - Martin Herbert
Parental Influences on Vulnerability and Resilience - Carole A Kaplan and Julie Owens
Parenting in Culturally Divergent Settings - Lee M Pachter and Thyde Dumont-Mathieu
Religious Influences on Parenting - Stephen Frosh
Parenting in Restructured and Surrogate Families - Jan Pryor
Sexual Orientation and Parenting - Charlotte J Patterson and Erin L Sutfin
Grandparenting and Extended Support Networks - Peter K Smith and Linda M Drew
PART TWO: FUNCTIONAL AREAS
Parenting and Children′s Physical Health - Elizabeth Soliday
Parenting Chronically Ill Children - The Scope and Impact of Pediatric Parenting Stress - Randi Streisand and Kenneth P Tercyak
Parenting Influences on Intellectual Development and Educational Achievement - Sally M Wade
Parenting Exceptional Children - Susan McGaw
Parenting Anitsocial Behavior - Dana K Smith, Peter G Sprengelmeyer and Kevin J Moore
Parenting Antisocial Children and Adolescents - Beth A Kotchick et al
Parenting and Mental Health - Colleen S Conley et al
Parenting Children with Mental Health Problems - Fiona K Miller and Jennifer M Jenkins
PART THREE: PARENT SUPPORT
Assessing and Delivering Parent Support - Harriet Heath
Community-Based Support for Parents - Judy Hutchings and Carolyn Webster-Stratton
Towards a Multi-Level Model of Parenting Intervention - Matthew R Sanders and Alan Ralph
E-Parenting - Nicholas Long

About the Author

Masud Hoghughi is Director of Aycliffe Centre for Children, County Durham and Honorary Professor of Psychology, University of Hull. He is the author of Troubled and Troublesome (1978) and The Delinquent (1983) and co-author of Assessing Problem Children (1980) and Treating Problem Children (1988). Dr. Long is a Professor of Pediatrics and the Director of Pediatric Psychology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and a licensed clinical psychologist. He is also the Director of the Center for Effective Parenting. Dr. Long has published extensively in the area of parenting and has been a frequently invited speaker on parenting at the national and international level. In addition, Dr. Long has also developed, evaluated, and disseminated various parenting programs.

Dr. Long and his colleagues of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded “Parents Matter” study found that early prevention efforts with parents to reduce sexual intentions of adolescents can be effective. One-year follow-up data from the Parents Matter study indicates that parents participating in the prevention intervention, relative to the control intervention, demonstrated increased parent-pre-adolescent sexual communication and improved parent comfort with and responsiveness to sex-related questions. The CDC is currently replicating this study in Kenya. The CDC is also developing training materials for a national dissemination of this prevention program.

Dr. Long continues to be actively involved in conducting parenting classes, having taught an average of 600 parents per year in parenting classes over the past 15 years. Dr. Long has a leadership role in several regional and national organizations concerned with parenting and children.