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Population-Wide Parenting Intervention Training: Initial Feasibility

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A population-level approach to deliver parenting and family support is a necessary but neglected approach needed to reduce the high prevalence of emotional/behavioral problems in children, decrease inadequate and potentially abusive parenting practices, and to provide improved parenting support to all parents within a specified population. We examined the initial feasibility of a large-scale professional training regimen to prepare existing service providers to implement an evidence-based preventive intervention in the realm of parenting and family support. Data from the U.S. Triple P System Population Trial are used to illustrate how a parenting and family support intervention can be successfully disseminated to a large, multidisciplinary workforce. We discuss lessons learned from this dissemination effort as well as implications for population-based approaches to child and family well-being.

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This research was supported by grant funding (U17/CCU422317) from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, 1334 Sumter St., Columbia, SC, 29201, USA

    Cheri J. Shapiro & Ronald J. Prinz

  2. Parenting and Family Support Centre, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Matthew R. Sanders

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Shapiro, C.J., Prinz, R.J. & Sanders, M.R. Population-Wide Parenting Intervention Training: Initial Feasibility. J Child Fam Stud 17, 457–466 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-007-9167-9

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