Parenting Style Case Study 2022

Running head: PARENTING STYLE
PARENTING STYLE
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PARENTING STYLE1
Introduction
Parenting styles such as authoritarian, authoritative and neglectful developed by
Baumrind have been found to be significant factor to explain the behaviour of parents towards
their children. Moreover, the interaction between parents and children is linked to cultural
surroundings. This situation occurs as culture tends to shape several domains of family life
which includes the way in which parents primarily socialize their children (Almaatani et al.,
2017). The following paper will identify key challenges and issues related to authoritarian
parenting styles and its impact on parent child relationship.
Discussion
Majority of researchers from Western cultures explain authoritarian parenting as
influential and demanding style (Leung & Shek, 2018). This type of nurturing approach is seen
to be unfair towards children as they have no alternative rather than conforming to their parents
irrespective of their likings or apprehensions. Comprehensive studies of Odongo, Aloka and
Raburu (2016) have mentioned that children of authoritarian parents develop capacity of relying
on their parents instead of thinking for themselves, thus developing low level of self-esteem,
confidence and hesitation of performing any activity by themselves. Such reaction developed by
children tends to disrupt their cognitive, emotional and social development. However, in the
view of Rostami and Saadati (2018), it is logical that by experiencing authoritarian parenting
style, children develop high depression as they tend to perform activities in compulsion rather
than in liberty. Many studies have claimed that adverse impact tends to exist in lieu of
authoritarian parenting and behavioral inhibitors. Although this sort of compelling parenting
tends to appear unresponsive and maladaptive for major proportion of children, it may benefit
children with BI develop more constructive social behavioral patterns (Chen, Sun & Yu, 2017).

PARENTING STYLE2
A case of authoritative parenting style is important to be highlighted to understand the
criticalities related to authoritative parenting. A 14 years old boy was referred to undergo
counseling session due to his continuous silence and submissive attitude, which has eventually
concerned his parents. From the case study, it has been noted that the child’s family belongs to
middle class socio-economic status and parents’ continuing apprehension was concerned with
their child’s increasing level of distraction from studies and tends to be in isolation, which has
not led him secure adequate marks in his class assessments. Although he used to involve in
extracurricular activities after school hours, but lately he tends to skip those classes and at times
school. The parents also informed regarding boy’s resentment and irritated behavior when
queried about studies. However, by taking semi-structured interviews of the boy along with his
parents as well as their peers to obtain information regarding client’s behavioral patterns, it has
been found that the boy has been recently teased by his school mates on his skin color which has
been critically impacting on his concentration and resulting in developing such agitated
behavioral patterns which often leads to isolation. The counselors then conducted an individual
session with the boy where he mentioned about his failure in his mathematics assessment said
that it had become quite challenging for him to recall the steps of a sum but his performance in
other subjects has shown average marks. By evaluating the information from the sessions of
parent and children, it has been found that the child show severe lack in self-esteem because of
the continuous bullying faced by him at school especially from girls. At this juncture, it is
important to note that during adolescence, opposite sex is considered to be highly imperative.
Such a feeling has led him to develop agitation, frequent quarrels amongst classmates, and
eventually leading to stay in isolation. On the other hand, while evaluating father’s responses
given during the session, an authoritative parenting style has been found involving severe