Long-term impact of prevention programs to promote effective parenting: lasting effects but uncertain processes.
This article reviews findings from 46 randomized experimental trials of preventive parenting interventions. The findings of these trials provide evidence of effects to prevent a wide range of problem outcomes and to promote competencies from one to 20 years later. However, there is a paucity of evidence concerning the processes that account for program effects. Three alternative pathways are proposed as a framework for future research on the long-term effects of preventive parenting programs: (a) through program effects on parenting skills, perceptions of parental efficacy, and reduction in barriers to effective parenting; (b) through program-induced reductions in short-term problems of youth that persist over time, improvements in youth adaptation to stress, and improvements in youth belief systems concerning the self and their relationships with others; and (c) through effects on contexts in which youth become involved and on youth-environment transactions.
Sandler
Irwin N
IN
Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-6005, USA. irwin.sandler@asu.edu
Schoenfelder
Erin N
EN
Wolchik
Sharlene A
SA
MacKinnon
David P
DP
D006801:Humans; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D013995:Time
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