Gestalt guidelines assisting parents to enhance psychosocial development in children

• Main Author: Brink, Magaretha Elizabeth
• Other Authors: Jacobs, I.F.
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Gestalt approach; Parenting; Enhancing psychosocial development; Child development; Middle childhood; Parenting support; Parent-child relationship; Quality time with child; Discipline in middle childhood; Parenting values; 155.4; Gestalt therapy; Developmental psychology; Parent and child; Social skills in children; Child rearing; Discipline of children
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2443

This thesis focuses on the development of Gestalt guidelines to assist parents to enhance psychosocial development in middle childhood. The researcher made use of the four stages of the intervention research process, namely project planning, information gathering, design, and early development of the guidelines to complete this research study. For the purposes of this study middle childhood is defined as male and female children between the age of seven and twelve years. Some areas of psychosocial development and relevant Gestalt principles are highlighted in this study. Functional elements of existing parenting programs are discussed and utilised along with the views of the respondents in this study, those of experts, and literature reviews to design Gestalt guidelines with an observational system. === Social Work === M.Diac.