Discuss the research regarding programs aimed at improving parenting skills. Explain your view on programs that seek to develop or enhance parenting skills
What will be an ideal response?
• Two reviews capture the broad-scale effectiveness of family-based prevention programs. The first one involved a meta-analysis of the effects of early prevention programs that included parents and children up to age five.
• Eleven high-quality studies were included that covered a variety of program modalities, including home visitation, family support services, and parental education (improvement of core parenting skills).
• Results showed significant effects across a number of important domain outcomes, including educational success, delinquency, cognitive development, involvement in the justice system, and family well-being. Program duration and intensity were associated with larger effects, but not multi-component programs.
• This latter finding goes against much past research, including the latest results on the effectiveness of the Fast Track multi-component, multi-site prevention program.
• The second one involved a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of early family/parent training programs for children up to age 5 years on antisocial behavior and delinquency.
• It included 55 randomized controlled experiments and investigated the full range of these programs, including home visits, parent education plus daycare, and parent training. Results indicated that early family/parent training is an effective intervention for reducing antisocial behavior and delinquency.
• These programs also produce a wide range of other important benefits for families, including improved school readiness and school performance on the part of children and greater employment and educational opportunities for parents.
• Significant differences were not detected across program type, such as traditional parent training versus home visiting.
• Student views will vary.
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