Adapting a Parent Management Training Intervention for Latino/a Populations

This chapter reviews the leading family-based programs for preventing delinquency and later offending, focusing on the highest quality research studies as well as the most rigorous reviews of research that include only high-quality studies. It argues that by focusing on families we can go a long way toward improving the effectiveness of programs and policies to prevent delinquency and later criminal offending. As such, this chapter provides some background on family risk factors and family-based prevention programs. It then examines the research evidence on the leading family-based programs for preventing delinquency and later offending: parent education, parent management training, and family programs for system-involved youth. Finally, this chapter discusses some implications for research and policy.

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Parent Management Training: Treatment for Oppositional, Aggressive, and Antisocial Behaviour in Children and Adolescents By Alan E. Kazdin (2005) Oxford, 410 pp, A$115, ISBN 0195154290 - Making Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Work: Clinical Process for New Practitioners By D. R. Ledley, B. P. Marx, and R. G. Heimberg (2005) Guilford, 254pp, A$56.95 hardcover, ISBN 1593851421

Behaviour Change ◽

10.1375/bech.23.4.278 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 278-280

Author(s):

Melissa Davis ◽

Hunna Watson

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Behavioral Therapy ◽

Antisocial Behaviour ◽

Management Training ◽

Parent Management Training ◽

Cognitive Behavioral ◽

Clinical Process ◽

Parent Management

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Saving Children from a Life of Crime: the Benefits Greatly Outweigh the Costs!

International Annals of Criminology ◽

10.1017/s0003445200000362 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 52 (1-2) ◽

pp. 67-92 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

David P. Farrington ◽

Brandon C. Welsh

Keyword(s):

Parent Education ◽

Home Visiting ◽

Cost Benefit ◽

Management Training ◽

Skills Training ◽

Parent Management Training ◽

Randomized Experiments ◽

Communities That Care ◽

Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care ◽

Parent Management

SummaryThis article reviews some of the most effective programmes for saving children from a life of crime, and also presents the results of cost-benefit analyses of some of these programmes. The best programmes include general parent education in home visiting programmes, parent management training, pre-school intellectual enrichment programmes, child skills training, Functional Family Therapy, Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care and Multisystemic Therapy. Communities That Care is a useful overarching programme. Most of these programmes have been shown to reduce crime and save money. The time is ripe to establish national agencies in all countries which will advance knowledge about early risk factors (from longitudinal studies) and about effective developmental interventions (from randomized experiments and cost-benefit analyses).

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