Psychiatry and Psychology

Parenting

Performing the role of a parent by care-giving, nurturance, and protection of the child by a natural or substitute parent. The parent supports the child by exercising authority and through consistent, empathic, appropriate behavior in response to the child's needs. PARENTING differs from CHILD REARING in that in child rearing the emphasis is on the act of training or bringing up the children and the interaction between the parent and child, while parenting emphasizes the responsibility and qualities of exemplary behavior of the parent.

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Performing the role of a parent by care-giving, nurturance, and protection of the child by a natural or substitute parent. The parent supports the child by exercising authority and through consistent, empathic, appropriate behavior in response to the child's needs. PARENTING differs from CHILD REARING in that in child rearing the emphasis is on the act of training or bringing up the children and the interaction between the parent and child, while parenting emphasizes the responsibility and qualities of exemplary behavior of the parent.

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4 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings ethnology, history, psychology, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

parenting education: coordinate IM with EDUCATION, NONPROFESSIONAL (IM)

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History Note

92

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Previous Indexing

  • Child Rearing (1970-1991)
  • Parent-Child Relations (1970-1991)

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  1. F01.829w.263w.370.310w

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WS 105.5.C3

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Parenting. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016487. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016487
  2. Parenting. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenting
  3. Parenting. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1217379