Parent Effectiveness Training: Adolescents' Responses

Abstract

This study measured the outcome of Parent Effectiveness Training using parents who were trained and a matched control group. The responses of the trained parents were contrasted with the perceptions of their adolescent children in the use of P.E.T. techniques. Responses from the Parent Effectiveness Training test were used as a basis for comparison. Analysis of the data did not support the claim that trained parents were any better equipped to use P.E.T. techniques than parents who had no training. The reports of adolescents of parents trained in P.E.T. confirmed that their parents did not use P.E.T. techniques with high frequency in the home.

Zur Effektivität des Gordon-Eltern-Trainings (PET) — eine Meta-Evaluation

“…(Gianotti & Doyle, 1982;Mitchell & McManis, 1977;Schultz, 1981;Schultz & Khan, 1982;Taylor & Swan, 1982;Therrien, 1979;Witte, Andresen & Hesse, 1983;Wood & Davidson, 1987) bzw. mit regionalen Normwerten (Rob & Norfor, 1980) vornehmen, zwei vergleichende Evaluationen, die das PET mit einem Alternativtraining vergleichen (Anchor & Thomason, 1977;Larson, 1972) und vier Evaluationen, die sowohl isoliert als auch vergleichend vorgehen (Pinsker & Geoffroy, 1981;Schofield, 1979;Schultz, Nystul & Law, 1980).…”

“…Dieser Befund macht insofern Sinn, als das PET auf Kommunikationsfertigkeiten beruht, deren Einsatz bei älteren und damit kommunikationsfähigeren Kindern mit größerer Wahrscheinlichkeit gewinnbringend ist. Gegen diese Hypothese spricht der Befund, dass das Training für die Eltern von Jugendlichen (älter als 12 Jahre) gänz-lich wirkungslos zu bleiben scheint (Larson, 1972;Taylor & Swan, 1982).…”

Effects of a parent education program on parents and their preadolescent children

“…The research on parents of adolescents and preadolescents is inconclusive. Although some attempts at parent education have resulted in the desired change in both parent and child (Cox & Matthews, 1977; Emery, 1978; Patterson, Chamberlain, & Reid, 1982), other studies have been unsuccessful in effecting change in either parent or child (Gordon-Rosen & Rosen, 1984; Taylor & Swan, 1982;Turrall, 1975). A variety of approaches including Adlerian, behavioral, and PET have been used, but there is insufficient evidence to say what is or is not effective.…”