Describes a study conducted (1) to develop effective strategies whereby inner city schools obtain instructional support from a large proportion of parents, and (2) to examine the effectiveness of developed alternatives designed to maintain parents' continuing participation. (Author)

Mothers who identified their children as having behavior problems were taught to respond differentially to selected behaviors exhibited by their children. Results indicated that use of child care agents as models may be an effective approach in the modification of child behavior. (ST)

First, what parents do with their young children does influence child intellectual performance; second, we cannot categorize any group of parents; third, many parents are now doing the right thing"; fourth, parent education is a reasonable effort. (Author)

The Adlerian viewpoint maintains that behavior changes in children can be effected by working with significant adults in their lives. This study evaluates the effectiveness of this model of counseling in elementary school. The results on both individual and group bases indicate that it was effective in the described setting. (Author)

A Parent Education Program is developed in which a paraprofessional person teaches mothers a set of specific activities to enhance the intellectual and personal development of the child. (MF)

Parents of severely retarded children were successfully taught to use the precision teaching technique of recording frequency of behavior on Standard Behavior Charts as a tool in their projects to modify selected behaviors of their children. (KW)

Provides several practical suggestions to help counselors encourage parents to develop an invitational approach to family living. Suggests these ideas can be used by counselor-consultants in individual conferences with parents or in parent education programs. (RC)

Compared parents from families (N=103) with retarded children who began a training program in behavior management. Based on posttraining assessment, low proficient parents were designated as lower socioeconomic status with less experience. A prediction based on six-month follow-up indicated low follow-through families had achieved less…

This study assesses the impact of a six-session, lecture-discussion, behavior-practice program on basic parenting skills for parents who bring their pre-school children to library story hours at six public libraries using experimental and control groups. Research methodology, discussion of results, and recommendations for librarians are noted.…

Reports effects of student instruction with the nutrition education curriculum alone (or with concurrent parent education) on nutrition knowledge, food and nutrition attitudes, and reported food consumption of primary school students (N=352). Higher scores of students with parental involvement support importance of parent education component in…

A procedure was developed for assessing interaction between parents and children enrolled in the Parent Education Program (PEP), an early intervention program for parents of hearing impaired children aged 3 years and younger. The PEP has used the videotape assessment procedure successfully for nearly 3 years. (SB)

Outlines the difficulties parents face in the first year after childbirth and describes a postpartum intervention program. Obstacles faced by the program due to cultural prohibitions against acknowledging parental ambivalence to a newborn child are also discussed. (Author/DB)

A program was undertaken to improve the communicational and parenting skills of inner city, lower socioeconomic minority group foster mothers. At evaluation, no differences were found in these skills between the control group and the training group; this points to the need for extended training programs for such mothers. (Author/GC)

The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of the Brazelton exam as a parent education tool for mothers and fathers. Target parents in treatment groups were taught to perform the Brazelton exam on their own infant, with attention being drawn to the infant's most positive interactive and physical abilities. (Author/RH)