The warrants of parenting: emotionality and reflexivity in economically disadvantaged families

Leung, Terry Tse Fong; Lam, Ching Man

doi:10.1080/02650530903102767

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“…The present study demonstrates that parent enhancement can go beyond knowledge and skills transmission and may yield affirmative results in parental satisfaction and efficacy, and identity development in parenthood. The results support the accumulated research findings that simply providing parents with knowledge and skills are insufficient for discovering the personal meaning of parenting (First & Way, 1995;Hills & Knowles, 1987;Leung & Lam, 2009;To & Chan, 2012). The key is to redirect parenting from the outward search for knowing-how to the inward quest for knowing-why, with which changes of attitude and behavior can be induced from the 'inside-out' (Tsushima & Burke, 1999).…”

Section: Implications For Social Work Practicesupporting

confidence: 87%

“…It can also help a person to generate reflexive inner dialogues (Leung & Lam, 2009) and construct new meanings that indicate what he/she considers as important in his/her lived experience and serve as guideposts for future decision making (McLean et al, 2007). People can thus move beyond self-reflection to action, putting their new understandings into daily practice in different life domains.…”

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confidence: 96%

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An exploratory study on the effectiveness and experience of a parent enhancement group adopting a narrative approach

Chan

2013

Journal of Social Work

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Parent education has been gathering momentum in Hong Kong since its inception in the 1970s; however, much emphasis has been put on imparting childrearing knowledge and skills to parents rather than facilitating the reorganization of parents' lived experiences and their identity development. Based on the results of an exploratory study conducted in Hong Kong, this article discusses the possible outcomes and experiences of a parent enhancement group adopting a narrative approach. The group comprised three, 5-hour sessions held weekly. The participants included 20 Hong Kong parents with at least one child in preschool. Through the adoption of a pretest-posttest design coupled with a 6-month follow-up survey and three post-intervention focus groups, the study attempted to examine the effects of the program and the subjective experiences of the participants.Findings: The quantitative results showed that the group might have positive impacts on the enhancement of parental satisfaction, parental efficacy, and parent-child relationships. The qualitative findings indicated that the group might help develop the parent identity through strengthening the parent-child relational connection and integration of parents' life stories. The participants also had a deeper understanding of the impact of parents' personal growth on their parenting practice and children's development.Applications: The findings offer a knowledge base for evaluating this approach to parent enhancement programs. Of particular importance are its transformative effect, retention effect, ripple effect, and empowerment effect. The findings also provide reference materials for practitioners to rethink the direction of parent education.

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Section: Implications For Social Work Practicesupporting

confidence: 87%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

An exploratory study on the effectiveness and experience of a parent enhancement group adopting a narrative approach

Chan

2013

Journal of Social Work

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“…A review of the development of parent education in Hong Kong reveals that parent education is commonly offered by parent education practitioners who impart parenting knowledge and skills to parents through various parent education programs, which aim to promote positive physical, intellectual, psychological, and social development of children [1,20,21]. Nevertheless, in their assessment of the existing mode of service provision, Chan [5], Lam [1], Lam and Kwong [2], Leung and Lam [3], and To and Chan [4] comment that parent education programs in Hong Kong are rather problem-focused. It is observed that parents are mainly helped to confront the problems of their children and themselves.…”

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“…The current social concerns over parenting in Hong Kong have serious implications for rethinking the direction of parent education [1][2][3][4]. Under the present dominant ideology of parent education, people tend to focus on the predicaments surrounding families while neglecting the opportunities embedded in parenthood for enhancing life advancement, strengths and possibilities for parents to seek positive changes [5,6].…”

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confidence: 99%

Reviving Parents’ Life Momentum: A Qualitative Evaluation of a Parent Education Program Adopting an Existential Approach

To¹,

Kan²,

Tsoi³

et al. 2015

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This paper reports the results of a qualitative analysis of the participants’ perceptions and experiences of a parent education program adopting an existential approach. With a critical review of the changing social context of parenthood and the provision of parent education in Hong Kong, the paper discusses the theoretical underpinnings, key components, and the design of a growth- and meaning-oriented parent education program. This program comprised six 5- hour sessions held weekly. The participants included 43 Hong Kong Chinese parents. An evaluation study was conducted to explore the outcomes of the program, which was composed of a non-equivalent comparison group design, a subjective outcome evaluation survey, and post-intervention focus group interviews. The current paper focuses on reporting the qualitative examination of the data collected through five post-intervention focus groups. Twenty-five participants were randomly selected and invited to join the groups. The recurrent themes extracted from their narratives reveal their perceptions of the impacts of the program on their enhancement of self-understanding and personal growth, integration of life through life review, reset of life priority, affirmation of the parent-child relational connection, changes in parent-child relationships and interactions, and cultivation of mutual support and mutual learning. Based on the qualitative findings, the paper explores the relevance and potentials of this approach in re-conceptualizing parent education in the Hong Kong Chinese context.

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“…There has been increasing attention directed to young people"s perception of their families and adolescents" subjective evaluation of parental psychological and behavioural control [27]. There were studies on parental stress and anger [28]- [30]. On the whole, these studies were plagued by methodological criticisms, notably invalidity of Western conceptual categories [31], [19] and cultural irrelevance of Western constructs [17], [20].…”

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Has Parenting Changed over Past Decade? A Qualitative Study of Generational Shifts in Parenting

Lam¹,

Kwong²,

To³

2019

IJSSH

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Although the importance of taking a historical perspective in understanding a phenomenon has been well-recognized, attempt to study generational shifts in parenting is almost non-existent in Hong Kong. Contemporary parenting is characterized as fraught with problemsanxieties about children's well-being and one's own adequacy as a parent and worries about adverse consequences of parenting on one's children. Rhetoric abounds, such as -irresponsible parenting‖, -overprotective parenting‖, -anxious parents‖, -helicopter parents‖, and -monster parents‖. Such vernaculars are frequently found in the mass media sounding alarm over the state of contemporary parenthood. However, there are only few studies tracing how contemporary parenthood has come to be characterized as such. In retrospect as practitioners and researchers, we reckon that certain generational shifts in -themes‖ of parenthood are discernible. This study seeks to unravel these generational shifts in parenthood in the recent history of Hong Kong evolving into modern city. This study covered discourse analysis of 48 sampled items of primers on parenting and parent education resource materials, and 120 life story interviews with 60 parents, each being interviewed individually twice. The respondents were recruited to represent five parent-cohorts -first-time parents in the 1970's or before, in the 80's, in the 90's, in the 2000's and in the 2010's. Each parent-cohort was made up of 6 mothers and 6 fathers, giving a total sample of 30 mothers and 30 fathers. Reporting our preliminary findings, this paper explores generational shifts in parenting discourse and people's experience of parenthood over the past decades and examines how contextual factors and discursive formations promoted by parenting professionals have shaped and re-shaped parenting in Hong Kong in the past five decades.

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The warrants of parenting: emotionality and reflexivity in economically disadvantaged families

Cited by 17 publications

References 14 publications

An exploratory study on the effectiveness and experience of a parent enhancement group adopting a narrative approach

An exploratory study on the effectiveness and experience of a parent enhancement group adopting a narrative approach

Reviving Parents’ Life Momentum: A Qualitative Evaluation of a Parent Education Program Adopting an Existential Approach

Has Parenting Changed over Past Decade? A Qualitative Study of Generational Shifts in Parenting

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