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Key Background Information on Parent Education and Support
Summary of the 2000 Literature Review

Parent Education and Support Literature Review - 2005

This literature review was written by Dr. Margaret B. Brown, former Extension Specialist at the University of Delaware, and reviewed by Family and Human Development Extension Specialists throughout the Land-Grant University System. Funding for this project was provided by CSREES-USDA. The Cooperative Extension System (CES) is a publicly funded, non-formal educational network that links the resources and activities of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Services (CSREES), 1862 and 1890 (Historically Black Colleges) land-grant institutions, 1994 institutions (Tribal Colleges) and more than 3,000 county administrative units. Land-grant colleges and universities are located in all 50 states, the U.S. Territories, and the District of Columbia.

Full Document

Evidence - based Programming

Parenting Stages

  • Prenatal - Toddlerhood - Pre-school
  • Middle childhood
  • Pre-adolescence and adolescence

Parenting Issues

  • Parental Monitoring
  • Appropriate discipline
  • Antisocial behavior and deliquency
  • Relationship between delinquency and substance use
  • Substance use prevention
  • Sexuality

Parent Relationship Topics

  • Interparental conflict
  • Coparenting
  • Strengthening marriage as it relates to parenting and child outcomes
  • Parents who are divorcing/divorced

Groups of parents

  • Low-income parents
  • Parents who are teens
  • Parents who are single
  • Parents in racial/ethnic/cultural groups
  • Fathers
  • Grandparents parenting grandchildren
  • Parents of children with disabilities
  • Parents with intellectual and cognitive disabilities
  • Parents with child abuse and neglect potential or confirmed behavior
  • Parents involved in domestic abuse- and the overlap with child abuse

Abridged Version

Evidence - based Programming

Parenting Stages

  • Prenatal - Toddlerhood - Pre-school
  • Middle childhood
  • Pre-adolescence and adolescence

Parenting Issues

  • Parental Monitoring
  • Appropriate discipline
  • Antisocial behavior and deliquency
  • Relationship between delinquency and substance use
  • Substance use prevention
  • Sexuality

Parent Relationship Topics

  • Interparental conflict
  • Coparenting
  • Strengthening marriage as it relates to parenting and child outcomes
  • Parents who are divorcing/divorced

Groups of parents

  • Low-income parents
  • Parents who are teens
  • Parents who are single
  • Parents in racial/ethnic/cultural groups
  • Fathers
  • Grandparents parenting grandchildren
  • Parents of children with disabilities
  • Parents with intellectual and cognitive disabilities
  • Parents with child abuse and neglect potential or confirmed behavior
  • Parents involved in domestic abuse- and the overlap with child abuse

 

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