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What are the categories of parenting programs
- -Programs:
- - designed to improve parenting in general, typically used by parents whose children are functioning normally but who want additional knowledge.
- - aimed at specific populations of parents, such as parents with low incomes.
- - focused on specific parenting issues, such as substance-abuse prevention, appropriate discipline, and antisocial behavior.
- - targeted to specific populations of children, such as children with disabilities.
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What should be kept in mind about parent education programs?
- Parenting beliefs (seek out help but “I don’t wanting to change, but I want my kids to change”.)
- Program intensity/duration (Often not enough training/practice to have an effect.)
- Parent’s needs (lot of times parents have problems as well as children.)
- Personal factors (More like things that might impact parenting, basically what they bring to parenting.)
- Family stressors (Things that are going on around that may affect them. limited education, Their psychological factors, Domestic violence ,Family discord, Excessive punishment)
- Parental perceptions [Low-self efficacy (capacity to produce an effect); External locus of control. (Feel like it's up to other people or fate)]
- Environmental conditions (Stressful environment. Have fear. Issues of unemployment. Hardly have any good adult involved in ur life. If u're worried about survival, less likely to concentrate on changing)
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Purpose of Positive Parenting Programs?
- Ensuring a safe, interesting environment (Having balance between supervision and giving children room to explore)
- Creating a positive learning environment (encourage good learning and academic effort/successes)
- Using assertive discipline (associate punishment with bad behavior)
- Having realistic expectations (Have to accept that no such thing as perfect in child or parent)
- Taking care of yourself as a parent (Can be better balanced, more positive, more authoritative parent if own needs are met as well)
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What should the divorce programs ideally have?
- Let your children love and respect both parents.
- Do not put the other parent down.
- Do not use visitations as an excuse to continue arguments with the other parent.
- Do not visit your children when you are drunk or on drugs.
- Visit the children at reasonable hours.
- Have the children ready for visitation.
- Do not be late for visitation.
- Do not habitually miss visits. Your children need to be able to count on you.
- Do not make promises to your children that you cannot keep.
- Let the other parent know as soon as possible if you cannot keep your visit and work together to find another reasonable and convenient time.
- Visitation is for you and your children. Do not use it to "check up on" the other parent.
- Two homes means two sets of "house rules" that children will adjust to. You do not have a right to expect the other parent to have the same "house" rules as you do.
- Put your children first and work together for your children's health, happiness, and safety!
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What are the family factors in externalizing behavior?
- Reciprocal influence (Negative parenting <--> antisocial behavior)
- Reinforcement trap (Negative and/or positive)
- Punishment acceleration (increase not decreased negative behavior)
- Instability (Family stress <--> antisocial behavior)
- Criminality/psychopathology (have parents that are criminal, or need special care)
- need to know because different targets for different interventions.
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What is STEP?
- Systematic Training for Effective Parenting
- teach parents why children have misbehavior.
- Goals of misbehavior
- Undue attention
- Power
- Revenge
- Assumed inadequacy
- Understanding the child
- Temperament
- Heredity and environment
- Birth order
- Gender roles
- Child development
- Parenting skills
- Beliefs and feelings
- Encouragement
- Listening and talking
- Owning the problem
- Focus on solutions
- Family meetings
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Parent Management Training (PMT)
- Assumes maladaptive parent-child interactions partly responsible for child’s behavior
- Two primary goals
- Change patterns that foster child’s aggression
- Improve monitoring
- May add…
- Social skills training for child
- Parental stress coping skills
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