Family Intervention Services program evaluation: A brief report on initial outcomes for families

Abstract

This is a brief report on a preliminary evaluation of the Metropolitan Family Intervention Service at the Victorian Parenting Centre, Melbourne, Australia. It presents an analysis of pre-post data collected from 589 mothers who commenced and completed Triple P programs between 1999 and early 2003. Forty five percent of children were found to be in the clinical range for child behaviour problems before intervention. Following the parenting program only twelve percent of children were reported by their parents to be in the clinical range. Significant improvements were also noted in measures of parental style, sense of competence, depression, anxiety, stress, and couple conflict.

Keywords:

• parenting
• family intervention
• Triple P
• evaluation