1st Edition

Parenting Education and Support New Opportunities

By Sheila Wolfendale, Hetty Einzig Copyright 1999
    180 Pages
    by David Fulton Publishers

    180 Pages
    by David Fulton Publishers

    First Published in 2000. The topic area of this book is amongst the priority items on this Government’s agenda and is a key part of social policy and strategies across government departments to enhance the quality of life for children and families.

    Review and overview of developments; Chapter 1 Parenting education and the Social Policy Agenda, Gillian Pugh; Chapter 2 Review of the field: current trends, concepts and issues, Hetty Einzig; Chapter 3 Families and society: change and continuity, Janet Walker; Chapter 4 Parents as key determinants in planning and delivering parenting education and support programmes: an inclusive ideology, Sheila Wolfendale; Themes of parental identity and contexts for parenting; Chapter 5 Being a parent: influences and effects upon parenting from the media, Lucy McCarraher; Chapter 6 Going critical: childhood, parenthood and the labour market, Peter Moss; Chapter 7 The emotional education of parents: attachment theory and emotional literacy, James Park; Relating principles to practice; Chapter 8 Supporting parents through parenting programmes, Bopinder Samra; Chapter 9 Support for parents at significant times of transition, Sonya Hinton; Chapter 10 Parenting education and support: issues in multi-agency collaboration, Peter Jones; Chapter 11 ‘She wants you to think for yourself, she doesn’t want to give you the answers all the time’: parents on parenting education and support, Roger Grimshaw;

    Biography

    John Bastiani, Sheila Wolfendale, Sheila Wolfendale, Hetty Einzig