Competent parents with natural children: Parent and child identities in manual-based parenting courses in Sweden

Childhood ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hetty Rooth ◽  
Katarina Piuva ◽  
Ulla Forinder ◽  
Maja Söderbäck
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Parent Training ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Adult Control ◽  
Identity Constructions ◽  
Parenting Training ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
Confessional Discourse

This article analyses identity constructions in two manual-based universal parenting training programmes in Sweden, Connect (U) and All Children in Focus (ABC). The analysis was performed with discourse analysis of oral messages during parent training courses. The findings revealed that the parents’ subject positions altered between troubled and good while the children’s subject positions altered between ambiguous and natural in a confessional discourse of uncertainty and competence. Conclusively, pastoral power operated to support parental self-reflexivity and adult control in a process to improve parenting skills.

scholarly journals Trusted and doubted: Discourses of parenting training in two Swedish official inquiries, 1947 and 2008

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (20_suppl) ◽  
pp. 59-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hetty Rooth ◽  
Ulla Forinder ◽  
Maja Söderbäck ◽  
Eija Viitasara ◽  
Katarina Piuva
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Discourse Practices ◽  
Parenting Training ◽  
Political Discourse Analysis

Aim: The aim of this study was to analyse discourses of parenting training in official inquires in Sweden that explicitly deal with the bringing up of children and parental education and how the representations of the problems and their solutions affect parental subject positions in the early welfare state and at the onset of the 21st century. Method: We carried out a discourse analysis of two public inquiries of 1947 and 2008, drawing on theories about governmentality and power regimes. Tools from political discourse analysis were used to investigate the objectives of political discourse practices. Results: Both inquiries referred to a context of change and new life demands as a problem. Concerning suggestions for solutions, there were discrepancies in parents’ estimated need of expert knowledge and in descriptions of parental capacity. In a discourse of trust and doubt, the parents in 1947 were positioned as trusted welfare partners and secure raisers of future generations, and in 2008, as doubted adults, feared to be faltering in their child-rearing tasks. Conclusions: The analysis revealed how governmental problem descriptions, reasoning about causes and suggestions of solutions influenced parents’ subject positions in a discourse of trust and doubt, and made way for governmental interventions with universal parenting training in the 21st century.

A Role-Play Test of Parent–Child Interaction

1982 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Thorley ◽  
William Yule
Keyword(s):  
Parent Training ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
Behaviour Modification ◽  
Training Exercise ◽  
Child Interaction ◽  
Test Instrument ◽  
Parent Child Interaction ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
Parent Child

A test instrument is presented which utilises role-play techniques to assess parenting skills in terms of behaviour modification techniques. The validity of the test is confirmed by its ability to measure established parenting skills as well as those acquired in a parent training exercise. The test should prove to be particularly useful in evaluating parent training programmes.

scholarly journals Using an Artificial Intelligence Based Chatbot to Provide Parent Training: Results from a Feasibility Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 426
Author(s):  
Guido A. Entenberg ◽  
Malenka Areas ◽  
Andrés J. Roussos ◽  
Ana Laura Maglio ◽  
Jillian Thrall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parent Training ◽  
Feasibility Study ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
Parenting Training ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Net Promoter ◽  
Qualitative Responses ◽  
Pilot Feasibility Study

Online parenting training programs have shown to be effective. However, no studies on parent training programs delivered through chatbots have been reported yet. Aim. This study aims to assess the feasibility of delivering parenting skills through a chatbot. Methods. A sample of 33 parents completed a pilot feasibility study. Engagement, knowledge, net-promoters score and qualitative responses were analyzed. Results. A total of 778% of the sample completed the intervention. On average, participants remembered 3.7 skills out of the 5 presented and reported that they would recommend the chatbot to other parents (net promoter score was 7.44; SD = 2.31 out of 10). Overall, parents sent a mean of 54.24 (SD = 13.5) messages to the chatbot, and the mean number of words per message was 3. Main themes parents discussed with the chatbot included issues regarding their child’s habits, handling disruptive behaviors, interpersonal development, and emotional difficulties. Parents generally commented on the usefulness of the intervention and suggested improvements to the chatbot’s communication style. Conclusions. Overall, users completed the intervention, engaged with the bot, and would recommend the intervention to others. This suggests parenting skills could be delivered via chatbots.

scholarly journals A meta review on parent training and therapies studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-117
Author(s):  
Seyma Tuncay ◽  
Fusun Gokkaya
Keyword(s):  
Parent Training ◽  
Parent Education ◽  
Literature Search ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
Training Interventions ◽  
Meta Review ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Search

This study aims to review the studies which are evaluated the efficacy of parent training and parent therapies. This article is a systematic review, and a literature search was performed for all published studies from March to July 2019 parent training programmes that report any retention and dropout data. To accomplish the purpose of the study, we compiled the studies from different databases including the following: Academic Search Complete, Science Direct, Medline, Scopus, Mendeley, PubMed, Crossref and Google Scholar, which published between 1998 and 2018. ‘Parent, parent training, parent training-efficacy, parent behaviour, parental behaviour, parent training interventions, parental, parenting, parent education and parenting skills’ words were used to identify the related studies. In designing the research, we discussed the research features of the participants and groups, training programs, sessions, therapists, methods, materials, measurements and results. A total of 23 studies met the search criteria. According to the reviewed results, after the parent training and therapies, parents moved away from violence and embraced more positive behaviours, and the violence of children decreased. As a result, it was seen that parent training and therapies contributed positively to the relationship between parent and child.   Keywords: Parent, parent training, parent therapies, parent education, parent training efficacy.  

Socially Constructing Healthy Eating: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Healthy Eating Information and Advice

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973232110234
Author(s):  
Jo Mackenzie ◽  
Esther Murray
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Nutritional Composition ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Moral Citizenship ◽  
Moral Discourses

A variety of materials offering healthy eating advice have been produced in the United Kingdom to encourage people to eat well and avoid diet-related health issues. By applying a Foucauldian discourse analysis, this research aimed to uncover the discourses used in six healthy eating texts (two state-produced and four commercial texts), how people positioned themselves in relation to these discourses, and the power relations between institutions and the U.K. public. Ten discourses including scientific, thermodynamics, natural, family/caring, emotional, medical, and moral discourses were uncovered and offered up subject positions in relation to moral citizenship and personal responsibility. Through the use of biopower, foods appeared to be categorized as “good” or “bad” foods in which bad foods were considered to be risky to health due to their nutritional composition. Most texts assumed people have the agency to follow the advice provided and failed to consider the readers’ personal contexts.

scholarly journals Testing a self-assessment tool for HP competencies with participants of training courses in Austria

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
G Lang
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Training Programmes

Abstract Background High quality health promotion (HP) depends on a competent workforce for which professional development programmes for practitioners are essential. The “CompHP Core Competencies Framework in HP” defines crucial competency domains but a recent review concluded that the implementation and use of the framework is lacking. The aim was to develop and validate a self-assessment tool for HP competencies, which should help evaluate training courses. Methods A brief self-assessment tool was employed in 2018 in Austria. 584 participants of 77 training courses submitted their post-course assessment (paper-pencil, RR = 78.1%). In addition, longitudinal data are available for 148 participants who filled in a pre-course online questionnaire. Measurement reliability and validity was tested by single factor, bifactor, multigroup, and multilevel CFA. A SEM proved for predictive and concurrent validity, controlling gender and age. Results A bifactor model (X2/df=3.69, RMSEA=.07, CFI=.95, sRMR=.07) showed superior results with a strong general CompHP factor (FL>.65, wH=.90, ECV=.85), configurally invariant for two training programmes. On course level, there was only minimal variance between trainings (ICC<.08). Structurally, there was a significant increase in HP competencies when comparing pre- and post-course measurements (b=.33, p<.01). Participants showed different levels of competencies due to prior knowledge (b=.38, p<.001) and course format (b=.16, p<.06). The total scale had good properties (m = 49.8, sd = 10.3, 95%-CI: 49.0-50.7) and discriminated between groups (eg by training length). Conclusions The results justify the creation of an overall scale to assess core HP competencies. It is recommended to use the scale for evaluating training courses. The work compensates for the lack of empirical studies on the CompHP concept and facilitates a broader empirical application of a uniform competency framework for HP in accordance with international standards in HP and public health. Key messages The self-assessment tool provides a good and compact foundation for assessing HP competencies. It provides a basis for holistic, high quality and sustainable capacity building or development in HP.

From Parent Training to Community Building

1997 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Webster-Stratton
Keyword(s):  
Parent Training ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Group Cohesiveness ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
Parent Training Programs ◽  
Low Income Families

For low-income families, particularly, parent-training programs need to be broadened and offered in communities in order to reduce isolation and strengthen support networks of families. Such an approach will lead not only to better parenting and fewer child-behavior problems, but also to greater collaboration with schools and more community building on the part of parents and teachers. The author describes a parent-training program's evolution from an initial goal of improving parenting skills in order to reduce children's conduct problems and promote their social competence to the broader goals of strengthening parents' social support and increasing their school and community involvement. Community-building strategies and processes embedded in the program designed to promote group cohesiveness and support networks are highlighted.

Development of Industrial and Commercial Management in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-114
Author(s):  
John Churcher ◽  
Patricia Worgan
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Independent States ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
The University ◽  
Uk Higher Education

UK higher education, in partnership with UK industry, contributes positively to the training of managers and entrepreneurs from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the New Independent States and Russia. Since 1992, the University of Luton has delivered management training courses in CEE and the former Soviet Union (FSU), developing expertise to assist both UK companies and CEE/FSU managers to understand the different attitudes and experiences that will help to overcome potential partnership problems and encourage East-West industries to take full advantage of the increasing trading opportunities. This case study analyses the management training programmes, and details pre- and post-training insights.

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