The Baby Elmo Program: Improving teen father–child interactions within juvenile justice facilities

Pace

Children and Youth Services Review

et al. 2018

This study examines whether fathers’ parental warmth and parenting stress were associated with behavior problems when children were approximately 36-months of age, beyond the influence of maternal behaviors. Study participants were 3,342 low-income fathers and mothers who participated in the Building Strong Families (BSF) study. Cross-sectional regression analyses indicated that for unmarried nonresidential families, fathers’ parental warmth and parenting stress were associated with child internalizing behavior problems; and fathers’ parenting stress only was marginally associated with child externalizing behavior problems. For consistently cohabiting residential fathers, only fathers’ parenting stress was marginally associated with child internalizing behavior problems. No associations of fathers’ parental warmth and parenting stress on either internalizing or externalizing behavior problems were observed in married families. Overall, study results suggest that fathers’ parental warmth and parenting stress may have a modest positive association on the development of child internalizing behavior problems particularly in vulnerable families (e.g., families in which fathers were nonresidential).

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The association of fathers' parental warmth and parenting stress to child behavior problems

Pace

Children and Youth Services Review

et al. 2018

“…It uses a theoretically driven intervention approach and interactive sessions to help fathers understand their infant's emotional needs and thus support positive father-child interactions. 73,74 The program is now being tested as an RCT with community-based samples of low-income fathers. 75,76 Supporting Father Involvement, a group-based relationship strengthening program that has been successful in promoting father involvement, 77,78 is currently being tested with high-risk couples involved in the child welfare system.…”

Section: Emerging Intervention Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Father-Inclusive Perinatal Parent Education Programs: A Systematic Review

et al. 2018

“…The Baby Elmo Project is a low-cost parenting class and play-based therapy provided to teen-fathers within juvenile justice institutions (Barr et al, 2011). The Baby Elmo Project tries to create connections between the young parents and their infants.…”

Section: Theme 4 Attachment Theory and Ecological Systems Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Baby Elmo Project tries to create connections between the young parents and their infants. Traditionally prisons have been attempting to generate attachment by offering parenting classes, but these classes are not always applicable based on personal circumstances and cultural differences in child-rearing (Barr et al, 2011). The intention behind Baby Elmo Program is to provide specific services to individuals and their abilities while having the child present to put theory into application.…”

Section: Theme 4 Attachment Theory and Ecological Systems Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Reading between the bars: exploring the representation of young adults with incarcerated parents in text literature

Parsons¹

2021

Preprint

The purpose of this paper is to examine and explore how young adults with incarcerated parents are represented in text-based literature. Although a plethora of research has recently emerged regarding the effects of imprisonment on the social, psychological, economic, and spiritual wellbeing of the family unit, young adults are rarely acknowledged. As a result, existing research appears informative, revolutionary and predictive; however, it instead contributes to creating the profile of a deviant and socially reclusive young adult with adverse life outcomes. This study is a critical reflexive literature analysis that incorporates a narrative methodology to gain insight into the representation of young adults between the ages of 17 and 25. With a selection of themes observed from the textual evidence, this study recommends three ways to humanize young adults with confined parents by building upon their personal narratives. Keywords: young adults, parental incarceration, critical reflexive, narrative