OBJECTIVE This study examines the relationship between parental self-confidence, warmth, and involvement, and corporal punishment in families of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). METHOD The diagnosis of ADHD was established through clinical interviews with the parents, children, and teachers, according the criteria in DSM-IV-TR. This diagnosis was also established...

Practitioners and policy makers alike intuitively accept the importance of parental involvement in schools; however, knowing how to meaningfully engage parents for the benefit of all children is less understood. School administrators and teachers face challenges related to reaching all parents in positive ways, implementing strategies that will result in improved student achievement, and balanc...

What Are Parent-Training Programs? arent-training programs, sometimes called parent-management training (Pearl, 2009), consist of integrated and manualized interventions designed to enable parents to acquire parenting skills to influence and manage their children’s behavior at home. Programs may also address the child’s physical health or the parent’s mental health. However, the primary aim of ...

The present study explored the differences between athletes’ and parents’ perceptions of parental practices (i.e., active involvement, directive, pressure, praise, understanding behaviours implemented by parents in context their child’s sport) considering gender. cross-sectional study. Parents (N = 352) athletes 256, M 14.72 years) completed a questionnaire to measure sport. Zero-order correlat...

Home-based Teaching and Learning (PdPR) is an alternative learning approach in many countries, including Malaysia, line with the new normal. It emphasizes parental roles helping children learn effectively at home. This study aims to examine effectiveness of involvement through a systematic procedure implementation Interactive Science Homework (KRIS). Using Quasi-Experimental design, this involv...

OBJECTIVE Expanded newborn screening (NBS) identifies some disorders for which clinical benefit is uncertain, as well as "incidental" findings (eg, carrier status), thus enhancing the need to inform parents about NBS before sample collection. METHODS A self-complete survey was sent to a cross-sectional, stratified, random sample of 5 provider groups in Ontario (obstetricians, midwives, family...

Using semistructured interviews, we explored barriers and facilitators to school-based parent involvement (SBPI) in a sample of predominately African American parents (N = 44) whose children attended urban public middle schools. Barriers to SBPI (e.g., perceptions of hostile parent-teacher interactions and aggressive, disrespectful students in the school) were more commonly reported than facili...