Contents: Part I:Focus on Normal Families of Young Children.J.L. Applegate, B.R. Burleson, J.G. Delia, Reflection-Enhancing Parenting as an Antecedent to Children's Social-Cognitive and Communicative Development. K.H. Rubin, R.S.L. Mills, Parents' Thoughts About Children's Socially Adaptive and Maladaptive Behaviors: Stability, Change, and Individual Differences. J. Palacios, M-M. Gonzalez, M-C. Moreno, Stimulating the Child in the Zone of Proximal Development: The Role of Parents' Ideas. C.A. Martin, J.E. Johnson, Children's Self-Perceptions and Mothers' Beliefs About Development and Competencies. A.V. McGillicuddy-DeLisi, Parents' Beliefs and Children's Personal-Social Development. G.W. Holden, R.J. Zambarano, Passing the Rod: Similarities Between Parents and Their Young Children in Orientations Toward Physical Punishment. Part II:Focus on Normal Families of Adolescents.W.A. Collins, Parents' Cognitions and Developmental Changes in Relationships During Adolescence. J. Youniss, J.P. DeSantis, S.H. Henderson, Parents' Approaches to Adolescents in Alcohol, Friendship, and School Situations. Part III:Focus on Atypical Families.D.B. Bugental, Affective and Cognitive Processes Within Threat-Oriented Family Systems. S.D. Holloway, S. Machida, Maternal Child-Rearing Beliefs and Coping Strategies: Consequences for Divorced Mothers and Their Children. T.J. Iverson, M. Segal, Social Behavior of Maltreated Children: Exploring Links to Parent Behavior and Beliefs. Part IV:Focus on Model Building of Parent Cognition.J.J. Goodnow, Parents' Ideas, Children's Ideas: Correspondence and Divergence. T. Dix, Parenting on Behalf of the Child: Emphatic Goals in the Regulation of Responsive Parenting. A.J. Sameroff, B.H. Fiese, Family Representations of Development. Part V:Focus on Cultural Perspectives of Parent Cognition.S. Harkness, C. Super, Parental Ethnotheories in Action. C. Lightfoot, J. Valsiner, Parental Belief Systems Under the Influence: Social Guidance of the Construction of Personal Cultures. G.H. Brody, Z. Stoneman, Child Competence and Developmental Goals Among Rural Black Families: Investigating the Links. Part VI:Focus on a Methods Issue.I.E. Sigel, The Belief-Behavior Connection: A Resolvable Dilemma?
