Media, Children, and the Family: Social Scientific, Psychodynamic, and Clinical Perspectives

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• Part I - Media and the Family 1
• 2 - Patterns of Family Life and Television Consumption from to the 1990s 19
• 3 - Family Images and Family Actions as Presented in the Media: Where We'Ve Been and What We'Ve Found 37
• 4 - The Effect of Media on Family Interaction 51
• References 58
• 5 - Media Implications for the Quality Offamily Life 61
• Part II - Developmental and Educational Implications 71
• 6 - Educating Children with Television: The Forms of the Medium 73
• 7 - Strategies for the 1990s: Using the Media for Good 85
• 8 - Evaluating the Classroom Viewing of a Television Series: Degrassi Junior High"" 97
• 9 - Media Influences and Personality Development: The Inner Image and the Outer World 117
• Part III - Effects of Violence and Horror 129
• 10 - Television, Films, and the Emotional Life of Children 131
• 11 - Confronting Children's Fright Responses to Mass Media 139
• 12 - Television and Aggression: Recent Developments in Research and Theory 151
• Part IV - Sexual Content and Family Context 163
• 13 - Contenttrends in Media Sex 165
• 14 - Effects of Massiveexposure to Sexually Oriented Prime-Time Television Programming on Adolescents' Moral Judgment 183
• Part V - Effects of erotica and Pornography 197
• 15 - Erotica and Family Values 199
• 16 - Pornography and Sexual Callousness: The Perceptual and Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Pornography 215
• 17 - Pornography Effects: Empirical and Clinical Evidence 229
• 18 - Pornography Addiction and Compulsive Sexual Behavior 249
• 19 - A Systematic Review of the Effects of Aggressive and Nonaggressive Pornography 271
• Part VI - Social Awareness and Public Policy 311
• 20 - Child Pornography in Erotic Magazines, Social Awareness, and Self-Censorship 313
• 21 - Research, Public Policy, and Law: Combination for Change 327
• Author Index 341
• Subject Index 349

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