Parental Parenting And Child Welfare Parenting Program

The study by Estefan, Coulter, Vandeweerd, Armstrong, and Gordki had two main purposes. The first was to determine the different stressors and attitudes given by the parents in a child welfare-parenting program. Program files and interviews were used to conclude the statistics of the different stressors that could cause ineffective parenting to children. The second main purpose was to get a better understanding of the different issues, so there can be better involvements growth in the parenting. Sample The participants in this study are parenting dyads that have completed the Nurturing Parents Program (NPP) between July of 2008 and October of 2010. The participants included 124 individuals. These individuals came from 62 couples.†¦show more content†¦The data information also included the component of the data collection, the operational definition, the type of analysis, and the location in the program file. Along with the Nurturing Parents Program, data was also collected from the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI-2) to determine attitudes regarding parenting and child rearing. In this program, it used five categories that specified child maltreatment risk. These five categories included the inappropriate parental expectations of children, parental lack of empathy towards children’s needs, strong belief in the use of corporal punishment, and reversing parent-child family roles, and oppressing children’s power and independence. There are two main wa ys for applicants to be chosen for the interviews. This is either through a small presentation or through letters delivered to prior applicants. The applicants, no matter which way they were chosen, could then reach out to the researcher and find a way to contact them, if they desired an interview. There were a couple of details that could cause a parent not to be chosen, including if they do not speak or are not at ease with speaking in English, if the parents were not involved with the services, or if they were not of