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Sihong Liu; Tiffany Phu; Amy Dominguez; Eliana Hurwich-Reiss; Drew McGee; Sarah Watamura; Philip Fisher – Prevention Science, 2025
Many existing preventive intervention programs focus on promoting responsive parenting practices. However, these parenting programs are often long in duration and expensive, and meta-analytic evidence indicates that families facing high levels of adversity typically benefit less. Moreover, due to a lack of specification and evaluation of…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Caregiver Child Relationship, Self Efficacy, Child Behavior
Mannion, Lydia – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2023
The Parents Plus Early Years (PPEY) Programme was conceptualised as an early group intervention for parents of preschool children with behavioural, emotional and developmental difficulties. This systematic review sought to examine and critically evaluate the existing literature in which the PPEY Programme has been implemented. A number of…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Preschool Education, Early Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Emily H. Becher; Sunghun Lim; Jenifer K. McGuire; Sharon Powell; Ellie M. McCann; Sarah E. Cronin; Veronica Deenanath – Family Science Review, 2022
This article describes a quasi-experimental design study comparing a sample of divorcing parents who attended a divorce education program to a sample of divorcing parents who did not attend a divorce education program. The data were analyzed using four child outcomes (emotional symptoms, conduct problems, peer problems, prosocial behaviors), with…
Descriptors: Divorce, Predictor Variables, Parent Education, Program Effectiveness
Rusby, Julie C.; Prinz, Ronald J.; Metzler, Carol W.; Crowley, Ryann; Sanders, Matthew R. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022
Background: Parenting strategies such as communicating clear expectations, providing calm directions, and teaching specific skills can strengthen young children's social-emotional development. Parenting programs for children with disruptive behavior often emphasize gaining compliance via effective directives, and less on how to facilitate child…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Parenting Styles, Social Emotional Learning, Child Development
Leckey, Yvonne; McGilloway, Sinead; Hickey, Grainne; Bracken-Scally, Mairead; Kelly, Paul; Furlong, Mairead – Child Care in Practice, 2019
Objective: A randomised control trial was conducted to assess whether the combined Incredible Years parent training and child training programmes (PT + CT) led to improvements in ADHD-type behaviours in children, when compared to a PT-only group and a Wait List Control (WLC) group. Method: Forty-five families with a child aged 3-7 years who…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Child Development, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Behavior Modification
Salisbury, Marlee R.; Roos, Leslie E.; Horn, Sarah R.; Peake, Shannon J.; Fisher, Philip A. – Prevention Science, 2022
Children with developmental delays or disabilities (DD) are at risk for self-regulation difficulties and behaviour problems compared to typically developing children. Intervening early is crucial to prevent long-term adjustment challenges across home and school contexts. Parenting has been identified as a malleable target of intervention for…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, At Risk Persons, Self Control, Behavior Problems
Damashek, Amy; Ross, Denise; Corlis, McKenna; Uwayo, Margaret; Westine, Carl – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
During early childhood, economically disadvantaged children can experience challenges that affect their social-emotional, language, and physical health development across the lifespan. Psychologists have tested several interventions to address developmental problems during early childhood, but information about the degree to which economically…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Intervention, Social Emotional Learning
Hampton, Lauren H.; Herrera-Carrillo, Francisco Eugenio; Vargas Londono, Fabiola; Villarreal, Enrique G.; Martínez Cueto, Ana Paula – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2023
Parents of children on the autism spectrum are important members of their child's early intervention team, yet there are multiple barriers to translating evidence-based parent-mediated interventions in Mexico. We examined early intervention needs in the Mexican population and compared these needs to those of the Latinx Spanish-speaking population…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Parent Attitudes, Speech Language Pathology, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Thomson, Rebecca N.; Carlson, John S. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
Social-emotional skills are equally as crucial for school success as cognitive and academic skills (Webster-Stratton and Reid in "Infants and Young Children" 17:96-113, 2004), yet many young children lack these skills (Lavigne et al. in "Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry" 35:204-214, 1996).…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Child Development, Preschool Children, Social Development
Iverson, Sydney L.; Gartstein, Maria A. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: Temperament, often defined in terms of reactive and regulatory tendencies, has been shown to predict child outcomes over and above other risk factors and represents a critical aspect of social-emotional development. The present article is a systematic review of temperament-based interventions targeting caregivers, wherein the…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intervention, Goodness of Fit, Stress Variables
Kong, Maureen Mo-yee; Au, Terry Kit-fong – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: The objective of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of Incredible Years Basic Parent Training (IYPT Basic) in a community clinic setting in Hong Kong. IYPT Basic is a Western program developed to promote children's academic, social, and emotional regulation skills and to reduce conduct problems among typically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Parent Education, Child Development
Faucetta, Kristen; Michalopoulos, Charles; Portilla, Ximena A.; Qiang, Ashley; Lee, Helen; Millenky, Megan; Somers, Marie-Andrée – Administration for Children & Families, 2021
In 2010, Congress authorized the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program by enacting section 511 of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 711, which also appropriated funding for fiscal years 2010 through 2014. Subsequently enacted laws extended funding for the program through fiscal year 2022. The program is…
Descriptors: Home Visits, Mothers, Infants, Federal Programs
Graziano, Paulo A.; Hart, Katie – Grantee Submission, 2016
The current study evaluated the initial efficacy of three intervention programs aimed at improving school readiness in preschool children with externalizing behavior problems (EBP). Participants for this study included 45 preschool children (76% boys; M[subscript age] = 5.16 years; 84% Hispanic/Latino background) with at-risk or clinically…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Self Control, Preschool Children, Behavior Problems
Kabasakal, Zekavet – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
Problem Statement: Studies carried out in recent years both in Turkey and abroad indicate that child and teenage violence has increased and become widespread. Annually, 91.1% of deaths due to violence in the world occur in low and middle-income countries. Family life is an important element in understanding violent behavior as it relates to family…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Education, Psychological Patterns, Behavior Problems
McLaughlin, Katie A.; Zeanah, Charles H.; Fox, Nathan A.; Nelson, Charles A. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: Children reared in institutions experience elevated rates of psychiatric disorders. Inability to form a secure attachment relationship to a primary caregiver is posited to be a central mechanism in this association. We determined whether the ameliorative effect of a foster care (FC) intervention on internalizing disorders in previously…
Descriptors: Intervention, Placement, Psychopathology, Attachment Behavior