Parent-adolescent collaboration: an interpersonal model for understanding optimal interactions.
Current parent-adolescent behavioral interaction research highlights the importance of three elements of behavior in defining adaptive interactions: autonomy, control, and warmth vs. hostility. However, this research has largely addressed the developmental needs and psychosocial outcomes of adolescents, as opposed to parents, with a focus on how parent and adolescent behaviors influence adolescent adaptation. This paper utilizes both adolescent and mid-life developmental research, as well as parent-adolescent interaction research, to introduce a model for conceptualizing parent-adolescent interactions as a transactional process in which both parental and adolescent development are considered. Further, ideas are presented describing how adaptive parent-adolescent interactions may change across adolescence. The concept of collaboration is proposed as a conceptual tool for assessing one form of adaptive parent-adolescent interactions. The structural analysis of social behavior (SASB) is presented as a model for studying the complex reciprocal processes that occur in parent-adolescent interpersonal processes.
Beveridge
Ryan M
RM
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 S. 1530 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA. ryan.beveridge@psych.utah.edu
Berg
Cynthia A
CA
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003071:Cognition; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D012919:Social Behavior