Volume 25 (2024), Edition 2

Parents shape and mould their children’s family relationship experiences and also influence their children’s personal development in many other ways as educators and transmitters. Although reciprocity is an indispensable mechanism for...

Clinical observations generated the hypothesis of multigenerational (transgenerational) transmission of conflictual relationship patterns in families. This hypothesis is meanwhile supported by a growing body of quantitative research. The impact of...

The reciprocal regulation of stress and negative emotions between parents and children plays a central role in the transmission of fatal transgenerational relationship patterns in early childhood. The decisive factor is the extent to which parental...

The article provides a brief overview of psychoanalytic and attachment theory developmental psychology in relation to the highly contentious separation problems of parents of under-threes. It is based on a lecture given at the annual conference of...

Since the first Pisa study conducted by the OECD in 2001, Germany has received poor marks in international comparison. The conclusion from Berlin at the time was that the »cuddly pedagogy« that had been practised for decades finally had to come to...