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Parent–Child Communication Processes: Preventing Children's Health‐Risk Behavior
Author(s) -
Riesch Susan K.,
Anderson Lori S.,
Krueger Heather A.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal for specialists in pediatric nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.499
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1744-6155
pISSN - 1539-0136
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6155.2006.00042.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , health risk , mechanism (biology) , risk communication , environmental health , medicine , philosophy , epistemology
PURPOSE. Review individual, family, and environmental factors that predict health‐risk behavior among children and to propose parent–child communication processes as a mechanism to mediate them.CONCLUSIONS. Improving parent–child communication processes may: reduce individual risk factors, such as poor academic achievement or self‐esteem; modify parenting practices such as providing regulation and structure and acting as models of health behavior; and facilitate discussion about factors that lead to involvement in health‐risk behaviors.PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS. Assessment strategies to identify youth at risk for health‐risk behavior are recommended and community‐based strategies to improve communication among parents and children need development.