Evidence-based Parenting Interventions to Help Parents Reduce the Use of Physical Punishment
Summary
This course focuses on an issue that many social workers confront in their practice with children and families - the use of discipline and physical punishment in childrearing. This course examines research on the effectiveness of a wide range of parental disciplinary approaches. This course introduces a series of evidence-based parenting interventions, and discusses how these interventions approach parents' beliefs and behaviors related to child discipline. We will discuss how cultural norms and beliefs may influence parents' discipline choices, and how social workers can engage in productive dialogue with parents to help parents achieve their parenting aims. Content of this course is based on the book published by the instructor titled "Ending the physical punishment of children: A guide for clinicians and practitioners."
Identify two evidence-based parenting interventions that help parents reduce their physical punishment of children.
Describe cognitive training strategies to help parents reframe their children's behavior to reduce parents' use of corporal punishment.
Describe brief intervention approaches that work with parents.
Agenda
Date
Time
Description
October 21, 2022
1:00pm - 1:30pm
Defining punishment, discipline, and abuse; the links of physical punishment to child abuse risk
October 21, 2022
1:30pm - 2:00pm
Intervention strategies: primary prevention to help parents reduce use of physical punishment
October 21, 2022
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Interventions: ACT Raising Safe Kids Program
October 21, 2022
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Interventions: Play Nicely, a brief primary care intervention
October 21, 2022
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Interventions: cognitive retraining strategies and parental beliefs/ attitudes; motivational interviewing
October 21, 2022
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Interventions: Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting