Clinical Child and Family

Clinical Child and Family

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Clinical Child and Family

Please submit you 2-page single-spaced summary. The reaction must be a critical analysis of the readings, with questions and commentary on their value.

The readings required for this assignment are:

Lansford, J. E., Chang, L., Dodge, K. A., Malone, P. S., et al. (2005). Physical discipline and children’s adjustment: Cultural normativeness as a moderator. Child Development, 76, 1234-1246.

Larzelere, R. E., & Kuhn, B. R. (2005). Comparing child outcomes of physical punishment and alternative disciplinary tactics: A meta-analysis. Clinical Child & Family Psychology Review, 8, 1-37.

Things to Consider:

1. Do the authors make clear why the topic is important?
2. Do the authors present relevant theoretical framing for the topic or study?
3. What are the central arguments regarding the relation of this “experience” to child development/adaptive functioning?
4. identify pertinent theories (how convincing are they?)
5. identify presumed mechanisms connecting experience / practice to development. (how plausible do they seem?)
6. What evidence is there to support these hypothesized relations? How consistent are findings? How persuasive is the evidence?
7. To what extent to relations vary by:
8. age
9. gender
10. SES
11. Culture
12. family configuration
13. geography
14. other environmental factors
15. other child characteristics
16. Is the sample used in the study limited in significant ways (i.e., in ways the limit how generalizable the findings are to other populations?
17. How strong were the measures of home experience? To what extent may the findings reflect differences in measures used across studies or measurement deficiencies?
18. What were the greatest surprises in the findings?
19. What were the greatest disappointments in the manuscripts reviewed?
20. How confident do you feel regarding the knowledge currently available on the topic? What are the key disagreements? What are the key gaps in knowledge?
    

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