purpose of this study was comparison of efficacy of child parent relationship therapy and positive parenting on decreasing of symptoms of anxiety and depression of children and maternal efficacy. research design of this study was semi-experimental research with a pre/post-test design and control group. among all of the school children who have 7 and 8 aged in isfahan city in the 2011-2012 schoo...

BACKGROUND Controlling, uninvolved, and rejecting parenting in early childhood are strong predictors of later disruptive behavior disorders. However, there have been no evaluations of non-targeted groups for parents of very young children, despite their potential advantages. METHODS We randomly assigned 79 mothers of 12- to 36-month-olds to an 8-session parent training program (called 'COPEin...

BACKGROUND The present study examined the influence of group positive parenting program on parental stress of mothers of children with attention-deficient/hyperactivity disorder. Mothers of 13 children aged four to ten years, who met attention-deficient/hyperactivity disorder diagnosis by assessment of a child psychiatrist and clinical psychologist were selected from two child and adolescent ps...

BACKGROUND Reversing the obesity epidemic requires the development and evaluation of childhood obesity intervention programs. Lifestyle Triple P is a parent-focused group program that addresses three topics: nutrition, physical activity, and positive parenting. Australian research has established the efficacy of Lifestyle Triple P, which aims to prevent excessive weight gain in overweight and o...

BACKGROUND Parenting programs integrating general parenting and health behaviour messaging may be an effective childhood obesity prevention strategy. The current study explored workplaces as an alternate setting to deliver parenting programs. METHODS This study involved two phases. The objective of the first phase was to explore interest in and preferred delivery mode of a workplace program t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the extent to which a home-visitation program (Early Start) had benefits for child abuse, child behavior, and parental- and family-level benefits to the 9-year follow-up. METHODS A randomized controlled trial in which 220 families receiving Early Start were contrasted with a control series of 223 families not receiving the program. Families were enrolled in the program f...

OBJECTIVE Behavioral interventions are recommended as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) treatments. However, a recent meta-analysis found no effects on core ADHD symptoms when raters were probably blind to treatment allocation. The present analysis is extended to a broader range of child and parent outcomes. METHOD A systematic search in PubMed, Ovid, Web of Knowledge, ERIC, and...

OBJECTIVE This study estimates the effect of a targeted early childhood intervention program on global and experienced measures of maternal well-being utilizing a randomized controlled trial design. The primary aim of the intervention is to improve children's school readiness skills by working directly with parents to improve their knowledge of child development and parenting behavior. One pote...

family is considered as the most fundamental and basic shaping, and underlies drug abusing. this research aimed to investigate the relationships between parenting styles (authoritative, permissive and despotic) as one of the most effective family factors on child growth and addiction potentiality among the students. the statistical population of research consisted of all student of medical ilam...