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Evaluation of the Enhancing Parenting Skills (EPaS) 2014 programme

Evaluation of the Enhancing Parenting Skills (EPaS) 2014 programme Margiad Elen Williams, Judy Hutchings, & Helen Baker- Henningham. The EPaS 2014 Programme

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Evaluation of the Enhancing Parenting Skills (EPaS) 2014 programme

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  1. Evaluation of the Enhancing Parenting Skills (EPaS) 2014 programme Margiad Elen Williams, Judy Hutchings, & Helen Baker-Henningham • The EPaS 2014 Programme • A three-day course for health visitors on assessment methods, case analysis, and intervention strategies with families with young children with behavioural difficulties • Health visitors work with a family on a one-to-one basis for up to 12 weeks supporting families in developing strategies to deal with child behaviour problems • Parents are interviewed and asked to keep records of their child’s problem behaviours which are used, with the other data, to develop strategies to manage the behaviours • Hypothesis: the structured behavioural case planning in the EPaS 2014 programme increases the effectiveness of health visitors to support families in effectively managing early onset behaviour problems • Sample & Procedures • Sixty health visitors from North and Mid-Wales and Shropshire to undertake a three-day training in the EPaS 2014 programme • Health visitors to screen for behaviour problems in children aged 30 – 48 months • Recruit 120 parents and children (where parents report child within clinical range on ECBI) • Randomised to intervention group or 4-month wait-list control group • Research home visits at baseline, four-month and eight-month follow-ups • Measures of child behaviour, parenting skills, parental mental health, child language skills, and observation of parent-child dyad Evaluation of an e-version of the Little Parent Handbook Margiad Elen Williams, Judy Hutchings, & Helen Baker-Henningham • The Little Parent Handbook • A handbook for parents covering core parenting principles • Aims to teach a range of strategies to parents to develop their parenting skills and/or to deal with their children’s challenging behaviour • Hypothesis: families will benefit to access of core behavioural parenting principles delivered in an on-line format • Sample & Procedures • Health visitors recruit families with child aged 30 – 48 months at-risk of developing significant behaviour problems (cause for concern but not clinical range) • Randomised to weekly chapter of the book, worksheets, and video vignettes • Possible development of reminder apps • Parents to complete online questionnaires at baseline and a 6-month follow-up For more information, contact Margiad Elen Williams, Centre for Evidence Based Early Intervention, Nantlle Building, Normal Site, Bangor University, Gwynedd, LL57 2PZ; tel: 01248 383627; email: margiad.williams@bangor.ac.uk

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