Parent training

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Parenting

Types of parent

Adolescent fathers Adolescent mothers Adoptive parents Expectant parents Fathers Foster parents Homosexual parents Mothers Single parents Single fathers Single mothers Stepparents Surrogate parents (human)

Articles concerning parents

Delayed parenthood Father child relations Mother child relations Parent child communication Parent child relations Parent child interaction Parent educational background Parent school relationship Parent training Parental absence Parental attitudes Parental characteristics Parental expectations Parental investment Parental occupation Parental permissiveness Parental role Parenthood status Parenting skills

Related topics

Alloparenting Animal maternal behavior Animal parental behavior Animal rearing Bateman's principle Child discipline Child rearing practices Corporal punishment in the home

Parent training is an educational and therapeutic approach to improving the parenting skills of parents

A parent education program is a course that can be followed to correct and improve a person's parenting skills. Such courses may be general, covering the most common issues parents may encounter, or specific, for infants, toddlers, children and teenagers. These courses may also be geared towards parents who are considering having a child, or adopting one, or are pregnant.

There are a number of established approaches which include:

• Kess-erziehen
• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
• Parent Effectiveness Training
• Starke Eltern
• Systematic Training for Effective Parenting(STEP)
• Parent Management Training
• Triple P - Positive Parenting Program is based on behaviorism.

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See also

• Childrearing practices
• Human relations training
• Parent child relations
• Parent coach
• Parent school relationship
• Parental role
• Timeout

Key texts

Books

• Schaefer,G.E. & Breismeister,J.M. (1998)(Eds.) Handbook of Parent Training (pp 98-152). New York; John Wiley.

Additional material

Papers

• Google Scholar

External links

Parent Education Course Writer's Guide may have more about this subject.

• The Changing Face of Parenting Education - From the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education.
• Priceless Parenting - an online parenting course which teaches proven techniques for effectively dealing with misbehavior without hitting or yelling.