Global Workforce Development in Father Engagement Competencies for Family-Based Interventions Using an Online Training Program: A Mixed-Method Feasibility Study

Sawrikar, Vilas; Plant, Alexandra L; Andrade, Brendan F.; Woolgar, Matt; Scott, Stephen; Gardner, Eli; Dean, Celia; Tully, Lucy A.; Hawes, David J.; Dadds, Mark R.

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“…Given that most participants were mothers, it was not possible to explore differences in mothers’ and father’s early engagement in relation to HBM and TPB. There are several studies focusing on how to incentivize fathers’ engagement (Lechowicz et al, 2019; Sawrikar et al, 2021), but it is important to expand these efforts with a population-level approach too. Most participants were highly educated, working parents, so parents with lower levels of education and employment may be underrepresented in the sample, and these findings need to be interpreted with caution.…”

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The role of health behavior theories in parents’ initial engagement with parenting interventions.

Gonzalez¹,

Morawska²,

Haslam³

2023

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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Objective: To examine the relationship between health belief model (HBM; i.e., perceived threat, benefits, costs, and self-efficacy) and theory of planned behavior (TPB; i.e., attitudes, social norms, and perceived behavioral control) constructs and parents' intention to participate and initial engagement (i.e., recruitment, enrollment, and first attendance) with a parenting intervention. Method: Participants were parents (n = 699, mean age = 38.29 years, 90.4% mothers) of 2-12-year-old children. The study conducted secondary analysis of cross-sectional data collected for an experimental study of engagement strategies. Participants provided self-report data on HBM constructs, TPB constructs, and intention to participate. Measures of initial parent engagement were also collected (i.e., recruitment, enrollment, and first attendance). Logistic regressions evaluated the impact of HBM and TPB constructs, and their combination, on intention to participate and initial parent engagement. Results: Analyses indicated that all HBM constructs increased the odds of parents' intention to participate and enrollment. In terms of TPB, parents' attitudes and subjective norms, but not perceived behavioral control, were significant predictors of intention to participate and enrollment. When combined in one model, parents' perceived costs, self-efficacy, attitudes, and subjective norms predicted intention to participate, whereas perceived threat, costs, attitudes, and subjective norms increased odds of enrolling in the intervention. Regression models for first attendance were not significant and those for recruitment could not be conducted due to lack of variance. Conclusions: The findings demonstrate the relevance of using both HBM and TPB constructs when enhancing parent intention to participate and enrollment. This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.Carolina Gonzalez https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8157-2056 Carolina Gonzalez was supported by a scholarship granted by Agencia Nacional de Investigacio ´n y Desarrollo (ANID) Becas Chile 72160251. The authors thank all parents around Australia who completed the survey. They also thank all the principals, directors, and staff from the childcare centers and schools across Australia, who shared this survey with parents. They would like to acknowledge the Departments of Education of New South Wales, Victoria, Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, and Australian Capital Territory, for allowing researchers to contact schools in their states/ territories. They also thank parent organizations for sharing this survey with parents within their organizations, that is, Australian Council of State School Organisations, Australian Parents Council, and Isolated Children's Parents' Association of Australia. They would also like to acknowledge Paul Jackson, who assisted with the setup of the online survey used ...

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of health behavior theories in parents’ initial engagement with parenting interventions.

Gonzalez¹,

Morawska²,

Haslam³

2023

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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Improving Children’s Services Engagement of Fathers in Child Protection: Logic Model for an Organisational Development and Staff Training Intervention

Scourfield,

Davies,

Jones

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Int. Journal on Child Malt.

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There is a long-standing and ongoing problem of practice with at-risk families in child welfare work focusing primarily on mothers and failing to properly engage fathers. The article describes a child welfare innovation from the UK designed to tackle this issue—the ISAFE (Improving Safeguarding through Audited Father-Engagement) intervention, developed by The Fatherhood Institute and The Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE) at Cardiff University and based on two previous separate interventions which had positive initial evaluations. ISAFE combines in-service social work practitioner training with other elements of organisational development to improve the engagement of fathers. Activities targeting organisational culture are case file audits, identification and training of team champions, and a webinar for service leaders. The practitioner training involves both awareness raising about the importance of engaging men and skills development via an introduction to motivational interviewing. ISAFE’s theory of change is summarised in the form of a logic model. Limitations of the intervention and its evaluation are discussed.

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Global Workforce Development in Father Engagement Competencies for Family-Based Interventions Using an Online Training Program: A Mixed-Method Feasibility Study

Cited by 2 publications

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The role of health behavior theories in parents’ initial engagement with parenting interventions.

The role of health behavior theories in parents’ initial engagement with parenting interventions.

Improving Children’s Services Engagement of Fathers in Child Protection: Logic Model for an Organisational Development and Staff Training Intervention

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