A developmental model for teen-age parent education.
This paper presents the experience of the authors in designing and teaching a parenting class for adolescent parents who have returned to the high school setting after having had a child. In the case of many teen-age parents the developmental tasks of adolescence may conflict with parental demands and responsibilities. These potential conflicts form the framework for important curriculum design issues. A detailed discussion relates the salient developmental characteristics of adolescence and early parenthood to the use of specific classroom strategies such as role play, biographical scripts, family diagrams, developmental charts and classroom debates.
D000293:Adolescent; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods