Global Perspectives on Parental Acceptance and Rejection: Lessons Learned from IPARTheory - Paperback

by Ronald P. Rohner (Editor), Sumbleen Ali (Editor)

Global Perspectives on Parental Acceptance and Rejection advances an understanding of the profound and lifelong effects that parental love (acceptance) and the absence of love (rejection) have on human development from childhood through to old age.

Author Biography

Ronald P. Rohner, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences and Director at the Rohner Center for the Study of Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection, University of Connecticut, USA.

Sumbleen Ali, PhD, is a Research Scientist at the Rohner Center, University of Connecticut, USA, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the State University of New York at Oneonta, USA.

Dedication

We dedicate this book with gratitude to those 100,000+ children and adults around the world who participated in our studies over the course of six plus decades.

We also dedicate the book to the scores of professionals and students who helped bring IPARTheory to its current level of maturity.