A preliminary evaluation of the Together Parenting Program – a stand alone component of the Exploring Together Program

Abstract

This preliminary study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Together Parenting Program, a new component of the Exploring Together Program (ETP). Together Parenting is a parent management training program for parents who want to enhance their relationship with their child(ren) and learn more effective parenting strategies for managing children’s emotional and behavioural problems. This report presents an analysis of pre-post data collected from 44 parents who participated in the 10-week Together Parenting Programs. The study provided some preliminary evidence to suggest that the Together Parenting component of ETP assists parents to reduce their children’s emotional and behavioural difficulties, while improving parenting practices and parental satisfaction.

Keywords:

• children
• teachers
• parents
• parenting
• emotional problems
• behavioural problems
• evaluation
• program evaluation