Maximizing Parenting Assessments for Effective Parenting Programs

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Maximizing Parenting Assessments for Effective
Parenting Programs

• Stephen J. Bavolek, Ph.D
• Family Nurturing Center of North Carolina
• November, 2009

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Levels of Prevention

• Three levels of Prevention as applied to Child
  Welfare
• Primary Prevention
• Education to prevent the initial occurrence of
  risk factors related to some condition.

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Levels of Prevention

• Secondary Prevention or Intervention
• Actions taken to stop the further deterioration
  of a condition and begin the process remediation.

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Levels of Prevention

• Tertiary Prevention or Treatment
• Actions taken to replace old, long standing
  dysfunctional behavior patterns with newer,
  healthier ones.

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Programmatic Terminology

• Competency a proven ability related to
  measurable knowledge, affect and skills.
• Dosage number of lessons taught or sessions
  provided to ensure competencies are attained.
• Incubation period of time to ensure new skills
  are integrated into existing behavior patterns
  consistently.

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Programmatic Terminology

• Maintenance of Behavior sustainability of the
  learned behavior over time.
• Fidelity adherence to program philosophy, model,
  format and implementation standards.
• Recidivism Recurrence of the unwanted behavior
  pattern over time.

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Dosage and Levels of Prevention

• Dosage is related to severity of condition
• Primary Prevention or Education
• Short term 10 to 15 lessons
• Competency-based lessons
• Open ended or closed group delivery
• Pre-post program assessment or individual session
  assessment

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Dosage and Levels of Prevention

• Secondary Prevention or Intervention
• Moderate term 15 to 25 sessions
• Competency-based lessons
• Home visit or closed group delivery
• Pre-post program assessment with longitudinal
  follow-up
• Family based when appropriate

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Dosage and Levels of Prevention

• Tertiary Prevention or Treatment
• Long term 25 to 60 sessions
• Competency-based lessons
• Home-based, group-based or combination home and
  group-based delivery
• Pre-post program assessment with longitudinal
  follow-up
• Family based program

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Nurturing Skills for Families

• An innovative program designed to empower
  professionals and parents in creating customized,
  competency based parenting programs to meet the
  specific needs of families.

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Nurturing Skills for Families

• Program Formats
• Home-based
• Group-based
• Group and Home-based

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Nurturing Skills for Families

• NSF contains eighty Competency Based lessons each
  60 to 90 minutes long.
• Lessons are presented in
• 18 parenting Competency Areas,
• Five AAPI-2 Parenting Constructs

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Nurturing Skills for Families

• Parenting Competencies are best defined as
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Beliefs

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Nurturing Skills for Families

• Knowledge
• Expertise and skills acquired by a person
  through experience or education.

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Nurturing Skills for Families

• Skills
• The ability, coming from ones knowledge and
  practice, to do something well.

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Nurturing Skills for Families

• Beliefs entail
• 1. Perceptions
• All the information we receive about ourselves
  and about the world through our senses.
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  Newberg 2004
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Nurturing Skills for Families

• 2. Cognition
• All the abstract conceptual processes that
  our brain uses to organize and make sense of our
  perceptions including memories and unconscious
  thoughts.

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Nurturing Skills for Families

• 3. Emotions
• Emotions help us establish the intensity and
  value of every perceptual and cognitive
  experience we have.

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Nurturing Skills for Families

• 4. Social Consensus
• Beliefs are influenced by the input we receive
  from other members of the community. Social
  consensus is important for beliefs to merge into
  consciousness.

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Adult Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI-2)

• AAPI-2 is made up of five Constructs that measure
  parenting Beliefs
• A. Inappropriate Expectations
• B. Lack of Empathy
• C. Strong belief in Corporal Punishment
• D. Reversing Family Roles
• E. Oppressing Power and Independence

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AAPI Parenting Profiles PRE TEST

• The following are samples of
• PRE TEST
• AAPI-2 Parenting Profiles

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Pretest Profile 1
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Pretest Profile 2
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Pretest Profile 3
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Pretest Profile 4
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Pretest Profile 5
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AAPI Parenting Profiles POST TEST

• The following are samples of
• POST TEST
• AAPI-2 Parenting Profiles

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Pre and Posttest Profile 1
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Pre and Posttest Profile 2
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Pre and Posttest Profile 3
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Pre and Posttest Profile 4
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Pre and Posttest Profile 5
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Pre and Posttest Profile 6
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Nurturing Skills for Families

• Parent Educators and parents review the
  pre-program assessment results of the AAPI-2
• Areas of parenting strengths and deficiencies are
  discussed.
• Lessons are selected from the Family Nurturing
  Plan to form the program.

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Nurturing Skills for FamiliesFamily Nurturing
Plan Staff VersionStephen J. Bavolek, Ph.D.
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Family Nurturing Plan

• 80 Total Lessons
• 44 Lessons form the core competencies
• 36 Lessons form supplemental competencies

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Nurturing Skills for FamiliesFamily Nurturing
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Nurturing Skills for Families

• The following programs are evidence based
  programs utilizing the Nurturing Skills for
  Families curriculum. Programs were designed for a
  specific target population utilizing the standard
  levels of prevention primary, secondary and
  tertiary. The appropriate dosage and sequence of
  lessons was assigned to each program model.

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Nurturing the Families of Hawaii

• Level Prevention
• Dosage Twelve 90 minute group sessions
• Target Population Parents and Children 4 to 12
  yrs

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Nurturing Americas Military Families

• Level Intervention
• Dosage Twenty-four 90 minute home-based sessions
• Target Population First time parents attending
  New Parent Support Program (NPSP)

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Nurturing the Families of Louisiana

• Level Treatment
• Dosage Sixteen 2 ½ hour group based sessions
  with 60 to 90 minute accompanying home sessions.
• Target Population CPS parents and their birth to
  five children.