Discipline and Moral Development -- Adolescent Psychology Applied to Education

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Subject: Discipline and Moral Development

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Danielle Murphy

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Date Posted: 18:37:21 02/17/08 Sun

Like LaFrance, I found the section on Parental Discipline to be very interesting. I have learned about moral development before, but had never heard about Hoffman's parenting styles for moral development: love withdrawal, power assertion, and induction. The book states that induction is viewed more favorably and seen as more effective in developing morals among adolescents. I can see how love withdrawal would be counterproductive, as well as extreme power assertion. However, it does not seem realistic that using only induction would solve behavioral problems from reoccurring. It is important to explain and talk out behaviors, but it can also be important to know that there may be consequences given when certain boundaries are crossed. As Hoffman eluded to in the chapter, induction may not be effective with all adolescents. Some children and adolescents may need more concrete consequences. This would be especially true for children still in the preoperational or concrete operational stages, as these children may have trouble connecting the abstract messages from a parent with the problem behavior. I feel that certain types of power assertion techniques are counterproductive, but things such as groundings or lose of privileges may work well for some children/adolescents.

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