OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of parenting education on improvement of reading and writing disabilities in children. METHODS A randomized controlled trial was done on primary school students with reading and writing disabilities and their mothers. The subjects were divided into three groups with 26 members in each group. The first group (mothers' education group) re...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The prenatal education promotes the empowerment of parents during pregnancy and postnatal period. This study aimed to assess the quality of educational sessions held in the third trimester of pregnancy as part of the parenting education programme for Spanish National Health System in Madrid. METHODS The design is a cross-sectional study in 41 primary care centre...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of Sure Start local programmes (SSLPs) on children and their families. To assess whether variations in the effectiveness of SSLPs are due to differences in implementation. DESIGN Quasi-experimental cross sectional study using interviews with mothers and cognitive assessment of children aged 36 months who speak English. SETTING Socially deprived communities ...

This article describes the development, implementation, and replication of a group-based parenting program for families affected by substance abuse. The Nurturing Program for Families in Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery improves parenting, as measured on objective scales; enhances parents' satisfaction and competence, as measured by participant reports; and is based on principles demonstr...

BACKGROUND Early childhood interventions can have both immediate and long-term positive effects on cognitive, behavioural, health and education outcomes. Fathers are underrepresented in interventions focusing on the well-being of children. However, father participation may be critical for intervention effectiveness, especially for parenting interventions for child externalising problems. To dat...

BACKGROUND No known studies have tested the effectiveness of child abuse prevention programmes for adolescents in low- or middle-income countries. 'Parenting for Lifelong Health' ( http://tiny.cc/whoPLH ) is a collaborative project to develop and rigorously test abuse-prevention parenting programmes for free use in low-resource contexts. Research aims of this first pre-post trial in South Afric...

Foster youth and youth aging out get pregnant and become parents at significantly higher rates than their non-foster youth peers.1,2,3,4 Children of youth aging out have an increased risk for maltreatment. Thus, parenting interventions may offer a promising approach for providing much-needed services to parents aging out.5 This project adapted an evidence-based parenting intervention, The Incre...

introduction: the lack of mental health interferes with one's individual achievement and ability for undertaking the responsibilities of everyday life. researches show that psychological well-being and parenting styles have an important role in ones' increasing general health. the current study examined the relationship between psychological well-being and parenting styles with studen...

INTRODUCTION Children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) often have associated behavioural difficulties that can present a challenge for parents and parenting. There are several effective social learning theory-based parenting programmes for dealing with behavioural difficulties, including the Incredible Years (IY) parent programmes. However, these programmes typically do not specifically ta...

ED FROM Furlong M, McGilloway S, Bywater T, et al. Behavioural and cognitive-behavioural group-based parenting programmes for early-onset conduct problems in children aged 3 to 12 years. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2012;2:CD008225. Correspondence to: Mairead Furlong, Department of Psychology, John Hume Building, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland; mairead.m.fu...