Study Group Details
207: The Psychology of Parenting Adult Children
Wednesday1:45 - 3:00
Starting September 21
In-Person
Our children will always be our children. Yet, our children emerge as adults, and through our own aging process and their own development, different issues in need for closeness, consultation and advice, perspective, and priority emerge. Key thematic issues that inform the relationships between parents and their adult children are questions of—whose life is it?, validation, and boundaries. This course will explore these issues from the perspective of the parent and the adult-child, using information from the fields of developmental and clinical psychology. The course format will involve lecture, discussion of readings, and participant sharing of parent-adult/child issues relevant to thematic course content. This study group may have a copied materials fee between $5-20. If this is the case, class members will be sent more information after the lottery. This study group meets from 1:45 to 3:00 PM.
This study group is new
Class Type: Lecture and Discussion
Class Format: In-Person
Hours of Reading: 1-2 hrs/week
Study Group Leader(s):
Anne Kendall
Anne Kendall is a clinician at The Wake Kendall Group where she works with adolescents and adults in individual and family therapy as well as doing parenting and couples work. She co-authored, Effective Parenting for the Hard-to-Manage Child, with Georgia DeGangi. Anne is also a mother, mother-in-law, and grandmother.
Carol WeissbrodCarol Weissbrod is Associate Professor Emeritus in the American University Department of Psychology, where during her tenure she was, at different times, Director of Clinical Training for the Clinical Psychology doctoral program and Department Chair. Currently, she is in Clinical Psychology practice in DC. She is also a mother, step-mother, mother-in-law, and grandmother.