CAN YOU REALLY TALK WITH YOUR CHILD? A PARENTAL TRAINING PROGRAM IN COMMUNICATION SKILLS TOWARD THE IMPROVEMENT OF PARENT-CHILD INTERACTION

Authors

  • DEBORAHD. DURRETT Author
  • PATRICIA A. KELLY Author

Keywords:

IMPROVEMENT

Abstract

Considerable theoretical speculation and research has focused on the relationship between poor parental communication and emotional disturbances in children. Much, if not most, of the research accomplished in this area has been concerned with the relationship between schizophrenia and the family's use of the "double-bind." Increasingly, however, there is an interest in and need for empirical knowledge concerning poor parental communication skills as related to the more general disturbances evidenced in children-children about whom the social work practitioner must process information, make a diagnosis, and formulate a plan of treatment. If, indeed, interpersonal communication within the family does play an integral part in the child's problematic behavior (Bateson, Jackson, Haley, Weakland, 1956; Bugental et al., 1971 ), the treatment would of necessity emphasize family interaction
rather than the traditional individual therapy sessions for the child. This study, then, focuses on the methods of improving the communication behaviors of parents and, more importantly, on which modes of training are most effective and efficient in transferring these learned behaviors from the 'laboratory' setting to the parent-child interaction.

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Published

2025-01-14