PSY-PC 1250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Extreme Behavior, Extreme Measures, Intentionality

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology and Human Development
• Course: PSY-PC 1250
• Professor: Amy Booth

Document Summary

Discipline continued: why do parents spank? (continued) "extreme measures are required to deal with extreme behavior" Intervention done to help parents with "problem-children" find alternative ways (not corporal punishment: research showed that physically moving child to safe location to cool off before reasoning was more effective than spanking. Similar to smoking--making long-term connection took time; a lot of subtler effects people weren"t attributing to smoking: not every child who is spanked is going to have negative outcomes; not an absolute relationship. Some countries have formal laws that make hitting a child under any circumstances illegal: total spanking ban--10, partial spanking ban--50, no spanking ban--40% (us included) Side note: the us is the only country in the world that hasn"t ratified the convention on children"s rights. Some states in the us have state-level laws, but most are ambiguous about what is okay as far as punishment interactions between parents and children. [alternatives: time-out--shown to be more effective than spanking.