Parent Engagement in Online Mindfulness Exercises Within a Parent Training Program for Post-Deployed Military Families

Group parent training with immigrant chinese families: enhancing engagement and augmenting skills training.

Parent training (PT) is an evidence-based treatment for reducing and preventing child conduct problems and abusive parenting. However, questions have been raised about the dissemination of PT to culturally diverse families who hold different views on childrearing. Group PT was applied in two Chinese immigrant families illustrating strategies for addressing potential cultural barriers. The Incre...

Parent Engagement in Youth Drug Prevention in Chinese Families: Advancement in Program Development and Evaluation

The escalating youth drug abuse problem in Hong Kong has attracted intense attention from the government, schools, and youth service professionals. Most preventive efforts have focused directly on positive youth development, very often through school programs delivered to secondary school students. There have been limited efforts to engage parents even though it is obvious that the family is ac...

Parent engagement and attendance in PEACH™ QLD – an up-scaled parent-led childhood obesity program

BACKGROUND Parenting, Eating and Activity for Child Health (PEACH™) is a multicomponent treatment program delivered over ten group sessions to parents of overweight/obese primary school-aged children. It has been shown to be efficacious in an RCT and was recently translated to a large-scale community intervention funded by the Queensland (Australia) Government. Engagement (enrolment and attenda...

A competency-based parent training program for child abusers.

Parent Training for Families of Hyperactive Preschool-Aged Children