Background Information As a parent or the mother of a 12 year old son, write an essay on parenting in the amount of 1800 words. This must include the following 6 subtopics. Each subtopic must have a minimum 300 words. This must be in first person language with no references. (Background information is attached). Subtopic 1: discuss the development of parenting skills Subtopic 2: discuss parental values and attitudes that accompany stages in the development of the child Subtopic 3: analyze methods of effective guidance Subtopic 4: discuss the role of discipline; compare and contrast discipline with punishment Subtopic 5: discuss constructive and destructive elements in parenting styles; identify at least three categories of parenting styles; include an overview of the parenting behaviors associated with each style and the results obtained from each Subtopic 6: discuss the challenges to responsible and effective parenting presented by contemporary society Each subtopic must include all four areas below (note the description below): 1.  Description of Concrete Experience Description: Concrete experience represents your personal participation with the people, places, activities, and events of an experience.  You should describe your involvement relative to the experience, demonstrating the opportunity for learning. 2. Reflections Description: Reflections represent your thinking and processing relative to the experience.  You should demonstrate your learning by describing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes developed through the reflective process. 3. Generalizations/Principles/Theories Description: Generalizations, principles, and theories are constructs that organize and guide academic learning.  A typical college course is built around several such generalizations, principles, and/or theories.  In this stage, you identify and describe the generalizations, principles, and/or theories to demonstrate your learning outcomes.  These learning outcomes result from analyzing and reflecting on your experience.  The generalizations, principles, and/or theories should be comparable to those addressed in typical college courses and should match the course description selected. 4. Testing and Application Description: Testing and/or application represent situations in which the new learning can be used.  You should describe how you did, or could in the future, test and/or apply what you learned.

Therapeutic interventions used with children and adolescents are sometimes different from therapeutic approaches used with adults. Usually adults can engage in an open dialogue about the issues that bring them into counseling. Children and adolescents, however, may be less likely to speak openly or less directly about their issues, so counselors must consider using therapeutic techniques that are more appropriate for that developmental stage.For this assignment, review the media program Introduction to Child and Adolescent Counseling: Getting Started. Consider the developmental stages of the child and adolescent in the media program and any concerns from a family systems theory perspective. Also, conduct an Internet search or a Walden Library search for at least one peer-reviewed journal article that presents a family systems theory and another peer-reviewed journal article that relates to the use of art therapy with children and adolescents.The Assignment (2–3 pages):Identify the behaviors that the child or adolescent is demonstrating that may be a concern to the counselor in the media.Identify two techniques that the counselor used with the child and explain why these techniques were appropriate for the developmental stage.Identify two techniques that the counselor used with the adolescent and explain why these techniques were appropriate for the developmental stage.Explain any concerns (including any ethical issues) from a family systems theory perspective of how you might as a clinician choose an intervention as appropriate for the family.Justify your explanations with evidence-based research.