Parent-Training Groups for Fathers of Head Start Children: A Pilot Study of Their Feasibility and Impact on Child Behavior and Intra-Familial Relationships

Helfenbaum-Kun, Elana D.; Ortiz, Camilo

doi:10.1300/j019v29n02_04

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“…Potential participants were then contacted and interviews scheduled. Similar to other studies that sought to include fathers and reported difficulty with recruitment and attrition (Helfenbaum-Kun & Ortiz, 2007;Tiano & Mcneil, 2005), we also found that recruiting was challenging and slow, and it took several months to recruit and interview our participants.…”

Section: Data Collection: Interviewssupporting

confidence: 73%

Fathers, adolescent daughters and gender in a low-income South African community

Lesch

Scheffler

2015

Journal of Gender Studies

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Knowledge about father-adolescent daughter relationships is mostly based on research in North-American and European contexts. Furthermore, it tends to rely on either fathers' or daughters' perspectives, and not on dyadic data. Informed by a social constructionist perspective, this study investigated the fatherhood constructions of fathers and adolescent daughters in a South African low-income community. We used Charmaz' social constructionist grounded theory method. Forty-two interviews were conducted separately with fourteen fathers and their adolescent daughters. Five conceptual categories were identified: (i) Predominance of fathers' provider role; (ii) Fathers and daughters having an 'understanding' in which daughters apparently complied with fathers authoritarian positions; (iii) explicit expressions of affection were mostly limited to special occasions; (iv) Fathers wished a better future for their daughters and attempted to keep them on track to such a future and (v) lastly, Fathers' expected daughters to follow their instructions and not their bad examples. Our findings highlight the influential and constricting role of dominant masculine and feminine gender notions in the discourses and practices of the fathers and adolescent daughters in our study. However, some evidence of contestations were present that suggests the potential of a shift towards more equitable gender relations.

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Section: Data Collection: Interviewssupporting

confidence: 73%

Fathers, adolescent daughters and gender in a low-income South African community

Lesch

Scheffler

2015

Journal of Gender Studies

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“…Some research suggests that fathers have a greater influence on a child's misbehaviours than mothers (Lundahl, Tollefson, Risser, & Lovejoy, 2008). The research findings of Helfenbaum-Kun and Ortiz (2008) showed that an experimental group of fathers involved in a parenting programme reported lower levels of child misbehaviours than the control group of fathers. Other research underlines the fact that positive outcomes from father-child interactions exist regardless of the extent of mother involvement in parenting (McBride et al, 2008).…”

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Engaging dads: Enhancing support for fathers through parenting programmes

Glynn¹,

Dale

2015

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Parenting programmes purport to improve the parenting capacity of both mothers and fathers; however it is predominantly mothers who participate. Father participation is important because fathers have a positive impact on both child development and behaviour, and outcomes for children are enhanced when both parents participate in parenting programmes. This article draws upon a study (via an online questionnaire) that explored the views of social workers about the issues affecting fathers' participation in parenting programmes. The results showed that participants considered the qualities of the programme leader, the programme content and the philosophy of the service delivery organisation to be the most important issues impacting on father participation. From the perspective of change, qualities of the programme leader and organisational philosophy were considered the most feasible to address. The sample comprised three times more female than male participants and there was an evident difference in viewpoint according to gender on issues including the gender of the programme leader and the gender make-up of the group.

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“…The most internationally recognizable parent training program that was used in a number of the studies was Webster-Stratton's Incredible Years Parenting Program (Edwards et al 2007;Gardner et al 2006;Helfenbaum-Kun and Ortiz 2007;Kim et al 2007Kim et al , 2008Patterson et al 2002;Reid et al 2007;Scott et al 2001;Taylor et al 1998;Tucker 1996, unpublished data;Webster-Stratton 1982, 1984, 1990, 1992, 1998Webster-Stratton and Hammond 1997;Webster-Stratton et al 1988, 2004. There is a variety of abbreviated and age-appropriate versions of the program, yet its main purpose is to provide parent training to strengthen the parent's competencies in monitoring and appropriately disciplining his or her child's behaviors along with increasing the parent's overall involvement in the child's school experiences to promote the child's social and emotional competence and reduce his or her conduct problems.…”

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Effects of early family/parent training programs on antisocial behavior and delinquency

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Based on evidence that early antisocial behavior is a key risk factor for delinquency and crime throughout the life course, early family/parent training, among its many functions, has been advanced as an important intervention/ prevention effort. There are several theories concerning why early family/parent training may cause a reduction in child behavior problems including antisocial behavior and delinquency (and have other ancillary benefits in non-crime domains over the life course). The prevention of behavior problems is one of the many objectives of early family/parent training, and it comprises the main focus of this review. Results indicate that early family/parent training is an effective intervention for reducing behavior problems among young children, and the weighted effect size was 0.35. The results from a series of analog to the analysis of variance (ANOVA) and weighted least squares regression models (with random effects) demonstrated that there were significant differences in the effect sizes of studies conducted in the USA versus those conducted in other countries and that studies that were based on samples smaller than 100 children had larger effect sizes. Sample size was also the strongest predictor of the variation in the effect sizes. Additional evidence indicated that early family/parent training was also effective in reducing delinquency and crime in later adolescence and adulthood. Overall, the findings lend support for the continued use of early family/parent training to prevent behavior problems. Future research should test the main theories of early family/parent training and detail more explicitly the causal mechanisms by which early family/parent training reduces delinquency and crime, and future evaluations should employ high quality designs with long-term follow-ups, including repeated measures of antisocial behavior, delinquency, and crime over the life course.

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Parent-Training Groups for Fathers of Head Start Children: A Pilot Study of Their Feasibility and Impact on Child Behavior and Intra-Familial Relationships

Cited by 45 publications

References 45 publications

Fathers, adolescent daughters and gender in a low-income South African community

Fathers, adolescent daughters and gender in a low-income South African community

Engaging dads: Enhancing support for fathers through parenting programmes

Effects of early family/parent training programs on antisocial behavior and delinquency

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