1st Edition

A Comparison of Eastern and Western Parenting Programmes, Policies and Approaches

By Low Yiu Tsang Andrew Copyright 2019
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

Parenting adolescents is a challenging task for parents. Professionals offer a range of support and parenting programmes to support parents. However, the importance of culturally adapting parenting programmes to benefit parents and their adolescent children hasn’t always been understood. This book provides a comparison of East and West parenting approaches and parenting programmes to show how... Read more

Acknowledgement
Preface



1.Introduction
2.Parenting, parenting styles, and adolescent development in Hong Kong and
3.Parenting Programmes
4.Methodology of evaluating parenting programmes
5.Culturally sensitive parenting programme: examples from Hong Kong
6.Future direction of parenting programmes for parents of adolescents



Bibliography
Index





Biography

Low Yiu Tsang Andrew is Assistant Professor at Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong. Before moving into social work education in 2010, he worked for 17 years as a registered social worker. His main research interests lie in the evaluation of preventive interventions like indigenous parenting programmes in Chinese culture, positive youth development programmes in school settings and suicide prevention programmes in school settings among others.