Course Description

The purpose of this course is to study parenting and parent-child relationships from a developmental, contextual, and life-span perspective. Influential theoretical approaches to the study of child rearing and child development will be discussed and applied to parenting in five broad developmental stages: infancy/toddlerhood, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood.

Course Objectives

This course is designed for students to:

• gain basic understanding of selected theoretical frameworks of child rearing in families.
• become familiar with issues related to child rearing that are important to the healthy development of children.
• learn skills for working with parents and children.
• develop awareness and sensitivity to different values, goals, and parenting practices in diverse socio-cultural contexts.