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Imparting Parenting Skills To Reduce Child Abuse In Poor Households
A series of home visits from therapists seemed to reduce instances of cursing, yelling, slapping and spanking by moms in poverty-stricken neighborhoods.
There were significant improvement in mothers parenting in the families that received the intensive services, compared to families that did not receive the services, said psychologists Ernest Jouriles and Renee McDonald at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
As a result of the intensive, hands-on training, the women in the study said they felt they did a better job managing their childrens behavior, said Jouriles and McDonald, two of the studys eight authors. The mothers also were observed to use better parenting strategies, and the families were less likely to be reported again for child abuse.
Although there are many types of services for addressing child maltreatment, there is very little scientific data about whether the services actually work, said McDonald. This study adds to our scientific knowledge and shows that this type of service can actually work.
The parenting training is part of a program called Project Support, developed at the Family Research Center at SMU and designed to help children in severely violent families.
The study appears in the current issue of the quarterly Journal of Family Psychology. The article is titled Improving Parenting in Families Referred for Child Maltreatment: A Randomized Controlled Trial Examining Effects of Project Support. SMU psychologist David Rosenfield also authored the study. For a link to the article abstract and related information see www.smuresearch.com.
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