Results indicate that
intervention parents reported lower rates of child problem behaviors, had fewer placement disruptions, and fewer foster parents dropped out of providing care.
No differences existed between the behavior rates reported
by intervention parents and those reported by control parents at baseline.
Compared with parents of children in the comparison group, do
intervention parents show greater involvement in their children's school and support their early learning?
The program aims to determine the minimally
sufficient intervention a parent requires in order to deflect a child away from a trajectory towards more serious problems.
No group differences were found for parental wellbeing, inter-parental conflict and general relationship quality,
although intervention parents reported improvements in parental wellbeing and inter-parental conflict at 6 - month follow - up.
Becoming a parent can be stressful and challenging, 19 — 21 particularly for parents who have experienced trauma, abuse, poverty or other stressors.22 Early -
intervention parenting programmes aim to assist parents with the challenges they experience.
On the parenting subscale scores,
intervention parents reported fewer unreasonable expectations of child development (37.3 (10.9) vs 39.9 (10.2), adjusted mean difference − 3.1, 95 % CI − 4.9 to − 1.4, p = 0.001).
After participating in the VAP - T,
intervention parents (compared to controls) knew more about the adult service system, were more skilled / comfortable advocating, and felt more empowered.
Results indicate that
intervention parents, reported changes in parents» awareness and regulation of emotion and emotion socialization practices and this resulted in reduced youth somatic complaints compared to the control group at postintervention follow - up (see length below).
To enhance compliance, before the start of
the intervention parents and children met individually with the trainers, to discuss the problems of their child, their parenting, their expectations of the training, motivation and the necessity of doing homework.
Intervention parents were more likely to stop abusing drugs and became less depressed than those in the control condition [3].
Intervention Parenting programme from age 8 to 15 months, with two group sessions co-led by well - child providers and a parenting expert.