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Pathways to Prevention: Improving Nonresident African American Fathers' Parenting Skills and Behaviors to Reduce Sons' Aggression
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Caldwell, Cleopatra Howard; Antonakos, Cathy L.; Assari, Shervin; Kruger, Daniel; De Loney, E. Hill; Njai, Rashid – Child Development, 2014
This study describes a test of the Fathers and Sons Program for increasing intentions to avoid violence and reducing aggressive behaviors in 8-to 12-year-old African American boys by enhancing the parenting skills satisfaction and parenting behaviors of their nonresident fathers. The study included 158 intervention and 129 comparison group…
Descriptors: Fathers, Sons, Males, Parenting Skills
Parent-Focused Intervention: Diffusion Effects on Siblings.
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Seitz, Victoria; Apfel, Nancy H. – Child Development, 1994
Examined whether intervention provided to low-income parents of firstborn children produced delayed benefits for later children by studying younger siblings of children in a family-support program. Found that intervention group siblings had better school attendance, were less likely to need remedial services, and were more likely to be making…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Rearing, Children, Diffusion (Communication)
Infants at Social Risk: Maternal Depression and Family Support Services as Mediators of Infant Development and Security of Attachment.
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Lyons-Ruth, Karlen, And Others. – Child Development, 1990
Infants of depressed mothers who were visited at home outperformed infants of depressed mothers who received no intervention services by an average of 10 points on the Bayley Mental Scale and were twice as likely to be classified as securely attached. Unserved, high-risk infants showed a high rate of insecure-disorganized attachments. (RH)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Attachment Behavior, Depression (Psychology), Family Programs