Prof. Dr. Teodora Stoeva
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/ped2022-2.01
Absract. The article addresses the issue of parenting training related to improving parenting skills and reducing ineffective parenting practices. Based on a study of parenting styles leading to emotional and behavioral disorders in children and adolescents, recommendations are made for educating parents based on the age of their children. For children, the results show that emotional neglect, overt rejection, authoritarianism, and punishment are important for the onset of emotional and behavioral disorders. This determines the need for parents to apply supportive and guiding strategies in their behavior towards their children. For adolescence, the results show that authoritarianism, punishment, lack of empathy, and lack of cooperation are important for the emergence of emotional and behavioral problems. This determines the need for the parent to effectively implement not only the supportive and guiding strategy, but also the cooperation strategy. The article also addresses the issue of individual counseling of the parent, which aims to activate his reflexive ego and develop a meta-position regarding the deep roots of his own behavior.
Keywords: parent training; individual counseling; children; adolescents; parenting skills
