Make Parenting a Pleasure

This is a comprehensive parenting training curriculum for parents of children aged 0-8 at risk of abuse and/or neglect. The goal is to reduce child maltreatment, promote healthy child development, and improve parenting skills and parent-child relationships.
The program seeks to bring together parents with similar parenting experiences, provide knowledge about child development and parenting strategies, and promote a community support network. The intervention lasts 12 weeks and is implemented by professionals specialized in parenting education.

Impact evaluations

An impact evaluation showed that program participants reported an increase in parenting skills, knowledge of child development and behavior, and a reduction in parental depression, although the intervention did not produce benefits in the domains of family functioning, social support, nutrition, or parental stress [1].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Munger, K., Seeley, J., Mender, L., Schroeder, S. & Gau, J. (2020). Effect of Make Parenting a Pleasure on Parenting Skills and Parental Depression. Child & Family Behavior Therapy, 42(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00168890.2019.1689915

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