Parent training: implementation strategies for adventures in parenting.
Adventures in Parenting, an informational booklet published by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, offers five principles that parents can use to develop a mental model of parenting: Responding, Preventing, Monitoring, Mentoring, and Modeling (RPM3). The current study was designed to assess the differential impact of three intervention conditions utilizing Adventures in Parenting on knowledge of RPM3 principles. Significant intervention effects were found for measures of knowledge of RPM3 principles; the more intensive interventions (i.e., face-to-face groups and web-based sessions) were associated with increased knowledge of RPM3 principles over 3 months. Results are discussed in terms of their contribution to new approaches of parent education, particularly the use of web-based training. Editors' Strategic Implications: Parent educators should review the promising findings regarding the RPM3 model. Preventionists, more broadly, may be interested in the effect of the program's delivery mechanism, with a comparison of participants who were randomly assigned to web-based, group-based, and booklet only conditions.
Bert
Shannon Carothers
SC
Department of Human Relations, University of Oklahoma, 601 Elm Avenue, Norman, OK, 73019, USA. Bert@ou.edu
Farris
Jaelyn R
JR
Borkowski
John G
JG
D000328:Adult; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007196:Indiana; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D015397:Program Evaluation