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Parenting Experts Their Advice, the Research, and Getting It Right
Jane L. Rankin
Book Code: C7678
ISBN: 0-275-97678-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97678-1
320 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/30/2005
List Price: $46.95 (UK Sterling Price: £26.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Although Rankin is primarily concerned with issues in developmental psychology, her excellent analysis also raises many general questions regarding the interfaces between research findings and their applications to individual and societal concerns.
    —PsychCRITIQUES     .
  • Great Reads for Parents Parents are inundated with information about how to be good parents, but don't always know which sources to trust. This book is written in a relaxed, readable voice, and breaks down the advice of five well-known experts. It compares differences among their theories and the ways in which their advice holds up to research.
    —Scholastic Parent & Child     May 2006
Description: Most parents lack the time, training, and other resources needed to consult the extensive research on parenting that has been produced by scientific study. Instead, many rely on advice from a few well-known authorities in popular books, newspaper columsn, and other media. This work takes a critical look at the advice of five experts--Benjamin Spock, T. Berry Brazelton, James Dobson, Penelope Leach and John Rosemond--then compares that with the findings of hundreds of empirical studies on children. The focus is on major parenting problems, including persistent infant crying, toilet training, early day care, discipline, adolescent sexuality education, substance abuse, and the influence of television and other electronic media. A final chapter summarizes the accuracy of each expert's advice compared with research findings, points out the common ground between experts, and summarizes their major strategies and biases. In some cases, a substantial gap exists between "expert" advice and scientific research findings. Parents, as well as medical, educational, and social service professionals and students will find this book not only helpful, but illuminating. Rankin's meticulous analysis points out areas of agreement and dispute between some of the most quoted parenting experts in the field, and, perhaps even more revealing, areas where their widely quoted pronouncements deviate from research and clinical evidence.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Infants and Toddlers
  • Early Child Care
  • Discipline
  • Electronic Media
  • Adolescence
  • Conclusion
LC Card Number: 2005018638
LCC Class: HQ755
Dewey Class: 649
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