Parent Counselling: An Evaluation of a Community Child Mental Health Service

Abstract

Health visitors and Clinical Medical Officers (CMOs) were trained in parent counselling and worked at home in a highly deprived area with parents of pre-school children with multiple psychosocial problems. Their basic aims were to establish a mutually respectful partnership and to support parents in managing their diverse problems. Detailed evaluation indicated that the Service was highly valued by both parents and referrers, and suggested significant changes, including: improvements in the severity of problems; increased parental self-esteem; decreased levels of parental stress and emotional difficulties; more positive constructions of their children; improvements in the home environment; and decreased child behavioural problems.

Parenting Skills Training: An Effective Intervention for Internalizing Symptoms in Younger Children?

“…Although scores on the internalizing and externalizing subscales of the CBCL were known to be correlated, they had also been clearly shown to measure separate phenomena (e.g., McConaughy, Achenbach, & Gent, 1988). Davis and Spurr (1999) report that clinical caseness is indicated on the CBCL by a T score of 64 or above. However, Lang, Field, Pickens, Martinez, Bendell, Yando, and Routh (1996) describe scores of 60 on the total, externalizing and internalizing scores as “clinically moderate to severe.”…”

Review: Comprehensive treatments for youth comorbidity – evidence‐guided approaches to a complicated problem

“…While overall effects across numerous programs and populations are in the small range for child socioemotional outcomes (Sweet & Appelbaum, ), one such program, The Parent Advisor Service, led to significant decreases in youth internalizing and externalizing problems, as well as improvement on a number of caregiver‐report variables (e.g. maternal self‐esteem, parenting stress, more positive home environment) (Davis & Spurr, ). As these promising efforts suggest, bolstering EBTs to manage comorbidity may require innovation with regard to the where and how of treatment implementation.…”

Knowledge and behavior of mothers with respect to the development of children

“…Међу њима, 17 студија је користило HOME као истраживачки инструмент. И док су неки од резултата указивали на непостојање значајних разлика у квалитету понашања мајки након имплементираних програма (Marcenko, Spence 1994, Olds et al 1986, већи број истраживања укључених у мета анализу показао је значајно унапређење знања о развоју деце, ставова о васпитању, као и понашања, попут позитивне реакције у односу са дететом или примене адекватних васпитних стратегија (Field et al 1980, Davis, Spurr 1998.…”