Parenting Education and Support

This book offers an in-depth examination of parenting education and support in a wide range of contexts. Written by exponents, researchers and practitioners in the field, the text offers a contemporary overview and directions for future policy and practice.

The authors examine current and emerging practice in a variety of settings and the theory underpinning these practices, where parenting education has become a key vehicle for the delivery of family-focused and social policies. The book will therefore be of interest to a wide range of practitioners from different disciplines.

Preface

v

Biographical details of contributors

vi

Section One: Review and overview of developments

1

(58)

Parenting education and the Social Policy Agenda

3

(10)

Gillian Pugh

Review of the field: current trends, concepts and issues

13

(20)

Hetty Einzig

Families and society: change and continuity

33

(15)

Janet Walker

Parents as key determinants in planning and delivering parenting education and support programmes: an inclusive ideology

48

(11)

Sheila Wolfendale

Section Two: Themes of parental identity and contexts for parenting

59

(46)

Being a parent: influences and effects upon parenting from the media

61

(14)

Lucy McCarraher

Going critical: childhood, parenthood and the labour market

75

(15)

Peter Moss

The emotional education of parents: attachment theory and emotional literacy

90

(15)

James Park

Section Three: Relating principles to practice

105

(61)

Supporting parents through parenting programmes

107

(15)

Bopinder Samra

Support for parents at significant times of transition

122

(15)

Sonya Hinton

Parenting education and support: issues in multi-agency collaboration

137

(13)

Peter Jones

`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

150

(16)

Roger Grimshaw

Index

166

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Parenting Education and Support

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