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programs that were evaluated in the article
Parent Training Program Components.
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being promoted and used in the Community-Led
Parenting Initiative article.
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Community-Led Parenting
Initiative
Off to a Great
Start
by Don Schilling
NEPI and one of its
affiliates, the Center for the Improvement of
Child Caring (CICC), have begun a community-led
initiative in and for the residents of Los Angeles
County.
Called, Uniting Los
Angeles for Effective Parenting, the
initiative brings together a variety of local
partners to work toward improving and expanding
the parenting enhancement infrastructure of this
county of 13 million people.
The
overarching goal of this five year undertaking is
to make it possible for it to become the
birthright of every child in the county to be
raised effectively by loving and skillful parents
who receive the best possible parenting education
and support.
To find out more, click
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Parent Training Program Components
That Have The Most
Impact
by Kerby T. Alvy,
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enlightening article about which features of
parent training programs are most helpful was
published in 2008 in the Journal of Abnormal
Psychology: A Meta-analytic Review of
Components Associated with Parent Training Program
Effectiveness, 36: 567-589, by Jennifer Wyatt
Kaminski, Linda Anne Valle, Jill H. Filene and
Cynthia L. Boyle.
The authors preface
their study-of-studies by noting that the presence
in the early years of high levels of child
disobedience, aggression, impulsivity and
inattentiveness is often the precursor to
delinquent, aggressive and risky behaviors in
adolescence. In some instances, the early
presence of such disturbing behaviors also
predicts later criminality and violence.
The authors reason that intervening early in
the lives of children through teaching parents how
best to cope with such behaviors, and how best to
promote cooperative and warm parent-child
relations, is a really good idea. Not only
do they contend that it is a good idea but they
show that there is a great deal of evidence about
the effectiveness of parent training approaches
and there are many carefully crafted parent
training programs available to use for such
health-promoting and preventative purposes.
In addition, they mention that these programs
are being widely used in certain sectors of our
society. For example, they indicate that over
800,000 families whose parenting problems have
been brought to the attention of child welfare
authorities are being referred to such
programs.
The authors further
indicate that it would be of high practical value
to know exactly what features or components of
these programs seem the most helpful. Then
those could be emphasized or they could be
incorporated in other programs that do not contain
such
features.
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Six
Secret Strategies for Writing Dynamite
Publicity Materials
by Jody Johnston Pawel,
LSW,
CFLE |
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 Whether you have a college course or degree
program, private therapy practice or
community-wide family life education program, you
want people to know you exist. You also want them
to know your service is valuable - even superior -
to what others offer. Unlike tangible products,
which people can see, touch and compare to similar
products, services are intangible - essentially
invisible!
Your publicity materials
are the primary way you make your services visible
and tangible. As prospects read it, they look for
something firm to evaluate. This allows them to
compare your service to similar services and
determine which will best meet their needs.
To make your publicity materials
stand out in the crowd, use these Six (no-longer)
Secret Strategies.
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Children's Media Use and Sleep
Problems:
Issues and Unanswered Questions
from The Kaiser Family
Foundation |
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Pediatricians have long
stressed the important role that sleep plays in
ensuring children's physical and mental
well-being, with inadequate sleep linked to
everything from obesity to aggression to
hyperactivity in children. However, research shows
that most children and adolescents do not get
enough high-quality sleep, and that their sleep
times appear to have declined over the last two
decades.
Coinciding with this trend
has been the rise in popularity of new media forms
including the Internet, video games, cell phones,
and DVDs. Because of the immediacy and
interactivity of these new technologies, young
people are using media at times and in ways that
might interfere with sleep quantity and quality.
To help inform this health issue,
the Kaiser Family Foundation has released a new
research brief that examines different aspects of
how media use may impact sleep. The brief reviews
and summarizes the limited body of research on
this topic, including studies on whether media use
directly displaces sleep, and how media content
can have either an exciting or calming effect on
children.
The brief also highlights
key unanswered questions that emerge from the
prior studies on children's media use and sleep.
For instance, little is known about the effects of
using media as a sleep-aid for children. There is
also a lack of information about whether new forms
of media affect sleep differently from traditional
forms. Finally, many questions remain about the
potential long-term effects of media use on sleep
and whether children's media habits are
reversible.
To read the entire brief, click here.
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