As such, universal family - focused preventive intervention efforts to date have focused primarily on teaching parenting skills such as parental monitoring and the use of
appropriate discipline techniques that have been demonstrated through basic and applied intervention research to be related to adaptive adolescent outcomes such as delayed initiation of substance use (Kumpfer and Alvarado 2003; Taylor and Biglan 1998).
More than 6 million children are subjected to mistreatment on a yearly basis in America, and parenting education may play a key role in reducing this number.4
Appropriate discipline techniques and communication skills are the focal points of the program.
Skills taught include the use of parental attention, praise, consequences and
appropriate discipline techniques, including time out, to manage the child's behavior.
Sessions may focus on effective parent - child communication, healing past trauma, improving the parent's response to the needs of their children, learning
appropriate discipline techniques, while decreasing inappropriate interactions between parent and child.
The parenting program (Webster - Stratton, 1997) provided instruction and videotaped modeling of key parenting activities including appropriate play, and use of parental attention, praise, consequences, and
appropriate discipline techniques, including time out.
The better informed you are about your foster or adopted child, the easier it will be for you to come up with
appropriate discipline techniques for him or her.
Age
appropriate discipline techniques not only curb misbehavior, but they also ensure that your child is learning the skills he needs to become a responsible adult.
As a whole, you need to make sure you find
an appropriate discipline technique for each of your children as individuals.
Not exact matches
Providing consistent and loving care, as in API's Eight Principles of Parenting, is as much a part of teaching children
appropriate behavior as specific positive
discipline techniques.
Research demonstrates that NFP and PAT also have negative effects, such as program families having fewer
appropriate play materials in the home than the comparison group families, using harsher
discipline techniques and being less accepting of the child's behaviour.
I tried numerous
techniques and strategies, trying to get my
discipline plan under control and my classroom routines flowing in an
appropriate and effective manner.
Parent education programs focus on enhancing parenting practices and behaviors, such as developing and practicing positive
discipline techniques, learning age -
appropriate child development skills and milestones, promoting positive play and interaction between parents and children, and locating and accessing community services and supports.
Family interventions include training in effective
discipline techniques and age -
appropriate supervision.