This brief report describes the French adaptation of PACE – Parenting Our Children to Excellence. Successfully offered in both English and Spanish in preschools and daycare centers in the United States, PACE is a research-based preventive intervention to support families in their parenting task through discussions and activities that address practical childrearing issues and promote child coping competence. A pilot study of its French equivalent, known as Entre-Parents, is underway in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. The report makes the processes linking original and adapted versions explicit by accounting for the conceptual and practical decisions that were made as Entre-Parents was being developed. A detailed account of the adaptation itself and of its results is then presented. Specifically, we describe (1) the consultation process at the origin of this adaptation, (2) the adaptation of the manual and the steps taken to establish the extent to which the English and French versions correspond (adaptation fidelity), and (3) the translation of the manual and the crosslanguage comparison of measures to demonstrate that they yield comparable data when administered in English and French.
Bidirectional Relationships Between Parenting Stress and Child Coping Competence: Findings From the Pace Study
