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Attending to Task Demands: Systematic Observation of Parent Directives and Guidance in Varying Situational Contexts
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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
A Population Approach to Parenting Support and Prevention: The Triple P System
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Prinz, Ronald J. – Future of Children, 2019
Adverse parenting practices, including child maltreatment, interfere with children's adjustment and life outcomes. In this article, Ronald Prinz describes the Triple P--Positive Parenting Program, designed to improve parenting population-wide. Prinz offers four main reasons to take a population approach. First, official records grossly…
Descriptors: Parenting Skills, Child Rearing, Parent Education, Holistic Approach
Population-Based Provider Engagement in Delivery of Evidence-Based Parenting Interventions: Challenges and Solutions
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Shapiro, Cheri J.; Prinz, Ronald J.; Sanders, Matthew R. – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2010
Population-wide interventions do not often address parenting, and relatively little is known about large scale dissemination of evidence-based parenting interventions. Most parenting interventions are not designed to reach the majority of parents in a geographic area or to influence prevalence rates for a problem, nor do they take full advantage…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Parenting Skills, Intervention, Child Rearing
Using the Mass Media as a Population Level Strategy to Strengthen Parenting Skills
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Sanders, Matthew R.; Prinz, Ronald J. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2008
Psychologists conducting interventions usually think in terms of assisting individuals, families, or small groups. Reaching large segments of a population is typically not the way most psychologists, in particular clinical and counseling psychologists, conceptualize intervention. In the parenting field, however, where large numbers of parents and…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Family Programs, Child Rearing, Disabilities
Parents Who Abuse: What Are They Thinking?
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Seng, Alexandra C.; Prinz, Ronald J. – Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2008
Child abuse is a major social concern around the world. Important to tackling the problem is an understanding of the mechanisms contributing to abusive parenting. This article brings together research on the cognitive variables associated with abusive or high-risk parenting. Considered are dysfunctional child-centered and parent-centered…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Rearing, Social Isolation, Parenting Skills
Latent Models of Family Processes in African American Families: Relationships to Child Competence, Achievement, and Problem Behavior.
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Smith, Emilie Phillips; Prinz, Ronald J.; Dumas, Jean E.; Laughlin, James – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2001
Explored the assessment of family processes for African American kindergarten children, parents, and teachers involved in the EARLY ALLIANCE prevention trial. Regression analyses examined the relationship of family processes to child social and academic competence, problem behavior, and early reading achievement. Family structure, family cohesion,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Beliefs, Black Family