INTRODUCTION The purpose of this pilot project was to determine first-time expectant parents' perceptions of a parent education intervention, their education needs, and preferred sources and modes of such education. METHOD The intervention was carried out during the last class of a public health prenatal education series. A total of 31 first-time expectant parents participated and included bo...

this experimental study was designed to show the effects of parent training program on iranian children with behavioral disorders. 27 students (7-11 years olf) with behavioral disorders were selected from amerian elementary shools's girls. these students were assessed by rutter's behavioral, asssessment test, completed by parents and teachers. then their mothers were randomly assigned...

Abstract Background and Purposes: Behavioral emotional disorders are the result of a variety of psychological problems during the developmental period, especially early childhood, which lead to antisocial behaviors, dysfunction of academic and social performance at later ages. Interaction patterns of families with children are among the factors affecting the process of development and menta...

Data from The Community Needs Assessment Survey were examined to understand the issues parents and adolescents felt were most important to address for the adolescents in their community. The sample of 1,784 Latino respondents consisted of 892 parent/adolescent dyads. Factor analyses found parents and adolescents identified and prioritized the same six factors: education and career planning, abu...

This report was developed to stimulate a discussion about best practices in the delivery of programs that support improvements in education access and quality at the pre-tertiary education levels in developing countries. Looking at the experience of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and others, it synthesizes evidence, experiences, and lessons learned in the broad field of pre-primary, pr...

Parent report and adolescent self-report data on lifetime sexual experience in adolescents with ASD were compared in 43 parent-adolescent dyads. Parents tended to underestimate the lifetime sexual experience of their sons, particularly solo sexual experiences such as masturbation and experience with orgasm. Parental underestimation and unawareness of adolescents’ sexual experience may influence...

This paper addresses the question of whether offspring living in one-parent families at age seventeen obtain less education than offspring living in two-parent families. Four hypotheses for parent absence effects are tested: the "no effects" hypothesis, the "economic deprivation" hypothesis, the "absent father" hypothesis, and the "family stress" hypothesis. Separate analyses are presented for ...

Researchers established that parental vaccination status often predicts of their children, but a limited number studies have examined factors influencing dyadic concordance or discordance (i.e., same different intent for both members). We investigated how child versus parent age as well parents’ perceptions respective friends’ immunization behavior impacted un/vaccinated decisions regarding vac...

This study seeks to examine the predictors of positive social skills outcomes from the University of California, Los Angeles Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills, an evidence-based parent-assisted social skills program for high-functioning middle school and high school adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. The results revealed that adolescents with higher parent-r...