Helicopter parenting, an observed phenomenon on college campuses, may adversely affect college students. The authors examined how helicopter parenting is related to self‐efficacy and peer ...relationships among 190 undergraduate students ages 16 to 28 years. Helicopter parenting was associated with low self‐efficacy, alienation from peers, and a lack of trust among peers. Implications are provided for counselors and psychologists in college‐ and university‐based counseling centers to help them to understand and provide assessment and treatment for adult children of helicopter parents.
Teaching Life Lessons: When Millennials Fail Ramirez, Jeffery; Isaacson, Janalee; Smith, Deborah ...
Building healthy academic communities journal,
06/2018, Volume:
2, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Background: Students who fail may face feelings of diminished self-perception, decreased sense of achievement, and experience negative emotions or moods such as: guilt, embarrassment, thoughts of ...reoccurring failure, feeling of letting others down or disappointing teachers and parents. Aim: This paper is to discusses the topic of failure and providing thoughts and reflections on the topic. The authors believe that faculty can help students learn to fail and also maintain their self-worth and dignity. Helping students learn from these failures and promoting resilience and humility when faced with life adversities may be one of the best lifelong lessons faculty can teach. Results: Failure is never an easy experience. When a student is faced with failure, it is critical for faculty to help the student find the positives of the experience. This as an opportunity to promote personal growth and character development. Educators are in a precarious position because learning outcomes are based on successful performance and failure can be looked upon negatively for faculty. Conclusions: Faculty are perfectly positioned to help reframe failure for students struggling in college and help them find their true passion in life. College is a transformative experience, a time for self-discovery and finding one’s true identity. It is a time to learn life lessons and how to manage adversity facilitating strong, emotionally healthy, driven men and women of future generations.
Helicopter Parents sind Eltern, die ihre Kinder in allen Belangen des Lebens begleiten und betreuen. Wenngleich Helicopter Parenting inzwischen in Praxis und Medien eine immer größere Beachtung ...erlangt hat, liegen dazu bisher nur wenige Studien und kein validiertes Messinstrument vor. Der voliegende Artikel fasst darum die bisher erkennbaren Merkmale von Helicopter Parenting an Hochschulen zusammen und entwickelt und validiert einen deutschsprachigen Fragebogen zur Erfassung von Helicopter Parents. Faktorenanalysen zeigen einen G-Faktor sowie die vier Subskalen Überbehütung, Überinvolviertheit, Autonomieeinschränkung und externale Schuldzuweisung. 14.02.2014 | Daniel Wilhelm, Wiebke Esdar & Elke Wild (Bielefeld)
Abstract Background Little is known about the presentation of mental health symptoms among South Asians living in the US. Objective To explore mental health symptom presentation in South Asians in ...the US and to identify facilitators and barriers to treatment. Design Focus group study. Participants Four focus groups were conducted with 7–8 participants in each group. All participants ( N = 29) were clinicians who had been involved in the care of South Asian patients with emotional problems and/or mental illness in the US. Approach Qualitative content analysis. Results Key themes identified included: generational differences in symptom presentation, stress was the most common symptom for younger South Asians (<40 years of age), while major mental illnesses such as severe depression, psychosis and anxiety disorder were the primary symptoms for older South Asians (>40 years of age). Substance abuse and verbal/physical/sexual abuse were not uncommon but were often not reported spontaneously. Stigma and denial of mental illness were identified as major barriers to treatment. Facilitators for treatment included use of a medical model and conducting systematic but patient-centered evaluations. Conclusions South Asians living in the US present with a variety of mental health symptoms ranging from stress associated with acculturation to major mental illnesses. Facilitating the evaluation and treatment of South Asians with mental illness requires sensitivity to cultural issues and use of creative solutions to overcome barriers to treatment.
Applying life course theory, this article provides an overview of what is known about helicopter parenting behavior in the workplace and why it exists. Herein, we discuss the pervasiveness of this ...issue and present a typology of the different levels of intensity or obtrusiveness of parental involvement (‘reconnaissance,’ ‘low altitude,’ and ‘guerilla warfare’) in the workplace, as well as ways in which the adult child may respond to such behaviors. We conclude with a discussion of how employers are responding to this issue with proposed strategies for how to best manage such situations.
Rescuing – a universal phenomenon Little, John
Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists,
12/2014, Volume:
22, Issue:
6
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Objective:
Rescuing, where the person is delivered from the immediacy of their conundrum by another, complicates management. The object of this paper is to understand the difficulty in relinquishing ...the rescuing role.
Conclusion:
Rescuing is a universal phenomenon in parenting, teaching and therapy that has developed over time through a variety of interwoven social, economic, psychological and clinical variables.
The Social Value of Self-Esteem Rutherford, Markella B.
Society (New Brunswick),
09/2011, Volume:
48, Issue:
5
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
This essay reflects upon the current cultural skirmishes over the parenting practices of Americans, which have pitted “Helicopter Parents” against “Free-Range Kids”; “Tiger Mothers” against “Panda ...Dads;” and at-risk communities “Waiting for Superman” against privileged students in the “Race to Nowhere.” Despite the exaggerated claims of difference in these and other popular representations of the parenting wars, a common theme of building children’s self-esteem is evident as a cornerstone of contemporary American parenting practices. Through different means, the relatively privileged parents who write child-rearing memoirs (or confessionals) pursue a similar end: to build and enhance their children’s self-concept and emotional competence. In particular, professional-class parents who are anxious about their own prospects for continued success in a risky economy turn toward emotional capital as a necessary supplement to educational and extra-curricular success to ensure inter-generational transmission of advantage. The goals of emotional competence and self-esteem replicate the mechanisms of control to which elite parents are subjected in professional careers and therefore represent an important form of cultural capital in the reproduction of class advantages.
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