Handbook of Dynamics in Parent-Child Relations Book

	Introduction and Overview
1	Beyond Bidirectionality: Bilateral Conceptual Frameworks for Understanding Dynamics in Parent-Child Relations	3
2	A Developmental Neuroscience Perspective on the Dynamics of Parenting	25
3	Developmental Change in Parenting Interactions	49
4	Conceptualizing the Influence of the Past and the Future in Present Parent-Child Relationships	67
5	A Developmental Perspective on Children as Agents in the Family	91
6	Perspectives on Children's Agency Within Families: A View From the Sociology of Childhood	109
7	The Aggressive Child as Agent in Coercive Family Processes	131
8	Behavioral Genetic Contributions to Understanding Dynamic Processes in Parent-Child Relationships	145
9	Parenting as a Goal-Regulation Process	167
10	Meta-Parenting in the Journey of Child Rearing: A Cognitive Mechanism for Change	189
11	Effective Socialization as Problem Solving and the Role of Parenting Cognitions	211
12	Parental Agency and Mental Health: Construction and Proaction in Families With a Depressed Parent	229
13	Managing the External Environment: The Parent and Child as Active Agents in the System	247
14	Parent-Child Relations in Cross-Cultural Perspective	271
15	Parenting and Adult Development: Contexts, Processes, and Products of Intergenerational Relationships	307
16	Parent - Child Relations in Adulthood: An Intergenerational Family Systems Perspective	325
17	Quantitative Methods for Deductive (Theory-Testing) Research on Parent-Child Dynamics	347
18	Qualitative Methods for Inductive (Theory-Generating) Research: Psychological and Sociological Approaches	373
19	Parent-Based Interventions for Aggressive Children: Adapting to a Bilateral Lens	395
20	Reconstructing Common Sense: Metaphors of Bidirectionality in Parent-Child Relations	421
	Epilogue: Dynamic Viewpoints on Parent-Child Relations - Their Implications for Socialization Processes	439
	Author Index	453
	Subject Index	473
	About the Editor	481
	About the Contributors	483