Advanced Issues in Parenting

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Emphasizes understanding children, the developmental changes that take place from birth through adolescence, and how these changes relate to caring for, nurturing and promoting children's development through parent-child interactions. In this way, an enhanced appreciation of children and their changing needs should be gained, as well as an appreciation of the issues involved in parenting. Focuses on how the major theories and empirical research findings related to parenting can have practical applications to not only parents, but also anyone working with children.