Delivering evidence-based parenting support in educational settings

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Sanders ◽  
Karyn L. Healy ◽  
Julie Hodges ◽  
Grace Kirby
Keyword(s):  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Parental Influence ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
P System ◽  
Triple P ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Parenting Support

Abstract Parent-child relationships influence learning throughout a child’s formal schooling and beyond. The quality of parenting children receive has a major influence on their learning and developmental capabilities. Parental influence is important in the early years of life and extends throughout a child’s schooling. Parenting has a pervasive influence on children’s language and communication, executive functions and self-regulation, social and peer relationships, academic attainment, general behaviour and enjoyment of school. Schools can further enhance educational outcomes for students by developing the resources and expertise needed to engage parents as partners in learning. This can be achieved by delivering and facilitating access to a comprehensive system of high-quality, culturally informed, evidence-based parenting support programs. In this article, recent developments in the Triple P system of parenting support are used to illustrate how schools can develop a low-cost, comprehensive, high-quality parenting support strategy that blends universal components with targeted components for more vulnerable children. We identify potential organisational and logistical barriers to implementing parenting support programs and ways to address these.

The Current State of Evidence-Based Parenting Support Programs

2017 ◽  
pp. 472-485
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Parenting Programs ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Triple P ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Parenting Support ◽  
Vulnerable Families

Evidence-based parenting support programs have achieved a great deal, and strong policy support has developed in many jurisdictions. This support is based on outcome evidence and economic arguments relating to the costs of not intervening. At the same time, there is by no means universal support for the implementation of population-based parenting programs. Challenges remain to shift public opinions and perceptions about the importance of parenting programs and to counter myths and misinformation about how universal programs can be used. It is sometimes ignored that programs such as Triple P involve blending of universal and targeted programs that are highly cost-effective and successful in reaching and engaging vulnerable families. The research focus must turn to ensuring parenting programs that are effectively applied to promote child, family, and community well-being not just to avert clinical cases of problematic children and young people.

Technology-Assisted Delivery of Parenting Programs

2017 ◽  
pp. 294-304
Author(s):  
Karen M. T. Turner ◽  
Sabine Baker ◽  
Jamin J. Day
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
Parenting Programs ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Triple P ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Parenting Support ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Assisted Delivery ◽  
Program Engagement

Increasingly, parents are looking to the Internet for information and advice about parenting. This presents an opportunity to broaden the reach and availability of evidence-based parenting support in an extremely cost-effective manner if we can harness the power of the Internet to deliver engaging and effective interactive programs. Online platforms provide the potential to tailor content and feedback to the user and reduce barriers to participation through ease and immediacy of access, flexibility and self-paced delivery, and increased privacy. This chapter examines the role of technology-assisted delivery of parenting support and discusses challenges in providing evidence-based parenting programs online. Learnings from research into the Triple P Online family of web-based programs are shared, including implementation issues that influence program outcomes, such as program engagement, dosage, and provision of professional support.

Measuring Child, Parent, and Family Outcomes at Individual and Population Levels

2017 ◽  
pp. 395-404
Author(s):  
Alina Morawska ◽  
Matthew R. Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Parenting Intervention ◽  
Triple P ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Individual Child ◽  
Parenting Support ◽  
Family Outcomes ◽  
The Common ◽  
Over Time

The hallmark of evidence-based approaches to parenting support is the systematic, comprehensive, and continuing measurement of outcomes, over time, across individuals and groups. The chapter beings by describing the typical targets of parenting intervention (e.g., child behavior and adjustment; parenting behavior and self-efficacy) as well as less frequently assessed, more distal, intervention targets (e.g., parent adjustment, couple relationships). The common types of assessments and best practice approaches to assessment are described. In particular, approaches to measuring individual child, parenting, and family outcomes, as well as approaches to measuring population-level outcomes are detailed. Finally, commonly used approaches to assess the effects of Triple P are outlined.

Applying Positive Parenting Programs with Different Types of Families and Family Members

2017 ◽  
pp. 185-187
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Positive Parenting ◽  
Parenting Programs ◽  
P System ◽  
Triple P ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Over Time

The parenting of children takes place in many different kinds of contexts. To avoid a “one-size-fits-all” approach, evidence-based parenting programs must adapt to and accommodate the diverse needs of families in a community. These needs can change over time in an individual family. This section of the book illustrates the flexibility and robustness of the Triple P system in addressing the needs of different types of families. Individual chapters discuss the application of Triple P to working parents, fathers, grandparents, parents with mental health problems, and parents who have been through separation or divorce. The success of these efforts is related to gaining a clear understanding of the context within which parenting tasks and responsibilities are undertaken.

The Future of Evidence-Based Parenting Support Programs

2017 ◽  
pp. 504-532
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Parenting Programs ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Preservice Training ◽  
Parenting Support ◽  
Evidence Based Programs ◽  
Values Orientation ◽  
Quality Evidence

An evidence-based intervention system must continuously evolve in response to evidence pertaining to its effectiveness. It also needs to adapt to the changing needs, interests, and preferences of parents. This chapter identifies important challenges for program developers, implementers, and evaluators to ensure parenting programs continue to remain relevant to people’s lives. Advances in understanding the nature and causes of individual differences in parental and children’s capacities for self-regulation remain an important issue for parenting practitioners to address. This work will need to include gaining a clearer understanding of nonresponders to parenting programs. As population-based approaches become more common, there is likely to be an increase in consumer demand for quality evidence-based programs and a call for better preservice training of professionals. The advantages and limitations of “branded” parenting programs are discussed. We envision a greater values orientation in programs and a focus on building the relational competencies of young people.

Using Positive Parenting Programs in Different Delivery Systems

2017 ◽  
pp. 227-230
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Mode Of Delivery ◽  
Parenting Programs ◽  
Triple P ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Online Delivery ◽  
Parenting Support ◽  
Primary Care Settings ◽  
The Media ◽  
Evidence Based Programs

A population approach to parenting support uses diverse delivery in person and online delivery contexts to provide parents with access to evidence-based programs. No single discipline, service sector, or mode of delivery should monopolize the provision of evidence-based parenting programs. Many different helping professionals come into contact with parents seeking support for parenting issues. It is particularly important that primary care settings are deployed as destigmatized socially normative points of contact for parents. Pediatricians, general practitioners, and community child health nurses are often approached for parenting advice. Similarly, the early childhood education and child care and school settings are also important contexts for the delivery of preventively focused parenting services and programs. In addition to considering how Triple P has been applied in these contexts, this section considers how evidence-based programs can be delivered in the context of the workplace, following natural disasters, through the media, and via the Internet.

The Power of Positive Parenting

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Positive Parenting ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Emotional And Behavioral Problems ◽  
P System ◽  
Triple P ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Parenting Support

The single most important thing we can do as a society to positively transform the lives of children and prevent social, emotional, and behavioral problems and child maltreatment is to increase the knowledge, skills, and confidence of parents in the task of raising children at a whole-of-population level. This book provides an in-depth description of a comprehensive population-based approach to enhancing competent parenting known as the Triple P—Positive Parenting Program. Delivered as a multilevel system of intervention within a public health framework, Triple P represents a paradigm shift in how parenting support is provided. The Power of Positive Parenting is structured in eight sections that address every aspect of the Triple P system, including (a) the foundations and an overview of the approach; (b) how the system can be applied to a diverse range of child presentations; (c) the theoretical and practical issues involved in working with different types of parents and caregivers; (d) the importance of, and how parenting support can be provided in, a range of delivery contexts; (e) how the system can respond to and embrace cultural diversity of families everywhere; (f) the strategies needed to make large-scale, population-level implementation of the system succeed; (g) lessons learned from real-world applications of the full multilevel approach to parenting support at a population level; and (h) future directions and how further program development and innovation can be supported for this approach to reach its full potential in positively transforming the lives of all children, parents, and communities.

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