Understanding, Supporting, and Collaborating with Families
The physical and emotional setting. It should make partners feel welcomed, trusted, and valued. (ex. Include welcome signs in multiple language, pictures that reflect the diversity of the families, etc.)
What is Atmosphere?
The behavior of one person (parent/child) affects the way the other (parent/child) responds.
What is a Transactional Relationship?
The idea that learning takes place through
contact with consequences (reinforcement and
punishment).
What is Operant Conditioning?
An overarching framework for understanding and interacting with families. It requires careful consideration of unique characteristics, strengths, needs of all parties, and larger environmental systems.
What is Approach?
An exchange of information that is mutually understood by both sender and receiver. It can be verbal & non-verbal.
What is communication?
A situation that increases the likelihood or motivation to respond with a certain behavior, increases the value of the consequences.
What is Motivating Operation?
Families can increase/build on self-confidence, empowerment/advocacy, and parenting skills. Also, they can decrease un-involvement and the uncertainty about how to support children’s efforts.
What are the benefits of Family Partnerships?
Parents do not bark commands or expect
immediate compliance but rather control their
children with reasoning and warmth. They are
able to balance responsiveness with
demandingness.
What is an authoritative parenting style?
A situation that decreases the likelihood or motivation to respond with a certain behavior, decreases the value of the consequences.
What is Abolishing Operation?
1. Parenting
2. Communicating
3. Volunteering
4. Learning at home
5. Decision-making
6. Collaborating with community
What are Epstein’s Six Keys to Successful Family Involvement?
These types of parents tend to hover, be over-involved, inappropriately intrusive, and overly manage their children.
What are helicopter parents?
An added response that
decreases the likelihood that they
behavior will happen again in the
future.
What is a Positive Punishment?
They are classes or workshops parents attend, and they can be in a group format, individually, or at home. They focus on building skills and knowledge and are instrumental in building on parenting skills to support children’s learning and development.
What are Parenting Education Programs?
Child’s age, gender, temperament, parents’ education, ethnicity and culture, social class, family size, and stress
What are factors that influence parenting styles?
An incentive is taken away
(usually something unpleasant) that
increases the likelihood the behavior
will occur again the future.
What is a Negative Reinforcement?