CDV Flashcards
(18 cards)
What is responsive parenting?
A parenting style characterized by the parent’s high sensitivity to children’s needs. They respond with warm acceptance of the child’s needs, feelings, and interests consistently. They are sensitive and react promptly to their children’s signals.
What is the age of infancy?
The period from birth through the completion of the 12 month of life.
What are the suggestions for infant sleeping arrangements?
Parents are cautioned to not fall asleep with their infant because if their baby falls they can get seriously hurt. Infants need to be placed in a crib or bassinet. Bed sharing with infants under the age of 6 months can lead to asphyxiation, strangulation, suffocation, and SIDS. Infants need a hard mattress with no loose bedding or stuffed animals. Infants should sleep on their backs.
What are the benefits of breastfeeding an infant?
Infants who are breastfed are less likely to become obese and develop diabetes. Newborns respond to breastfeeding as they use their instincts to latch onto their mother’s breast. The mother’s antibodies can be transmitted to the infant through her breast milk. This helps the infant develop increased immunity against diseases. Nursing can also become a bonding experience. Mothers should not take nicotine, alcohol, and certain medications.
What is Belsky’s Model?
“The Determinants of Parenting: A Process Model” is the title of the historic work by Belsky and refers to the reciprocal influences between parents, their children, and a given context. Belsky identified three sets of influences or “domains of determinants” as he called them. These were “the personal and psychological resources of the parents, the characteristics of the child, and contextual sources of stress and support”. Parental personality was the most influential. Parents who fulfill their parenting obligation well, require a balanced and competent personality, good impulse control, and they feel satisfied and secure within their own lives. Parents who maltreat their children should not put the blame on the children to excuse themselves.parenting is multiply determined and is influenced by characteristics of the parent, child, and social context
What is non-parental childcare?
Childcare from others that are not the parents
What is self-regulation?
Refers to the ability to appropriately manage emotions, also in age-appropriate manner. When early attachment is insecure or harmed in any of numerous ways, those early concerns cab find expression in disrupted patterns of self-regulation.
What is co-regualtion?
Infants language and acquisition and cognitive development
The role of language emerges during this period as the basis for learning and development during the later stages of cognitive development. Language acquisition is a crucial foundation in development and communication, and parents perform a significant role in helping infants communicate.
What is prosocial behaviors for preschoolers?
These behaviors promote helpfulness, empathy and concern for others as well as controlling impulsiveness, gaining self-control, and limiting aggression.
What is conservation?
Problems become better understood during this period.Piaget tested this concept with children by pouring a cup of water into differently shaped containers.
What are Mildred’s 6 stages of development?
Unoccupied, solitary or independent, onlooker, parallel, associative, and cooperative play.
What are Elder’s parenting styles?
Autocratic, authoritarian, democratic, permissive, egalitarian, laissez faire, and ignoring.
What is imaginary audience?
Adolescents typically believe that they are the center of attention and that every move they make is under scrutiny of an imaginary audience that contributes to self-consciousness about appearances and what they say and do.
What is personal fable?
A belief held by many adolescents that they are special and unique, so much so that none of life’s difficulties or problems will affect them regardless of their behavior
What is invincibility in adolescents?
Adolescents typically fall under the spell of a belief that they are invincible. They think bad things happen to only other people and that they are protected or exempt from harm or injury when they take chances with risky behaviors. This cognitive flaw perhaps explains why some adolescents undertake in risky behaviors such as; reckless driving, sexual activities, and substance abuse.
What is the percolator effect?
The “percolator” effect refers to the brewing at the base of the family system, which then bubbles to the top, resulting in either negative or positive impacts. In the context of stepfamilies, the parenting may be influenced strongly by the children, in other words, come from the bottom up, as children influence and express their needs to their parents. The percolator effect can also be maintained by the relationships between step siblings.
What are the 6 patterns and characteristics of a step-family?
- A new family system is created instantaneously
- there is a new configuration of individual life span tasks and goals
- Ex-spouses and ex-grandparents continue to be part of the extended family
- Both children and adults may have mixed feelings of allegiance
- Children may not be willing participants in the new blended family system
- Role confusion can be challenging
