title: Promoting effective parenting practices and preventing child behavior problems in school among ethnically diverse families from underserved, urban communities.
abstract: This study examines the efficacy of ParentCorps among 4-year-old children (N = 171) enrolled in prekindergarten in schools in a large urban school district. ParentCorps includes a series of 13 group sessions for parents and children held at the school during early evening hours and facilitated by teachers and mental health professionals. ParentCorps resulted in significant benefits on effective parenting practices and teacher ratings of child behavior problems in school. Intervention effects were of similar magnitude for families at different levels of risk and for Black and Latino families. The number of sessions attended was related to improvements in parenting. Study findings support investment in and further study of school-based family interventions for children from underserved, urban communities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA. laurie.brotman@nyumc.org
authors.forename: Laurie Miller
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Brotman
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Calzada
authors.forename: Keng-Yen
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kingston
authors.forename: Spring
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dawson-McClure
authors.forename: Dimitra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kamboukos
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosenfelt
authors.forename: Amihai
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schwab
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Petkova
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002668:Child Rearing; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004493:Education / Q000379:methods*; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology*; D009519:New York City; D016487:Parenting / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D010352:Patient Dropouts / Q000523:psychology; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical; D014505:Urban Population; D035862:Vulnerable Populations / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*