Parents as Partners: A U.K. Trial of a U.S. Couples‐Based Parenting Intervention For At‐Risk Low‐Income Families
Despite the well‐established links between couple relationship quality and healthy family functioning, and burgeoning evidence from the international intervention field, there is little or no evidence of the efficacy of couples‐based interventions from the United Kingdom (U.K.). This study explored...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Family process 2017-09, Vol.56 (3), p.589-606 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Despite the well‐established links between couple relationship quality and healthy family functioning, and burgeoning evidence from the international intervention field, there is little or no evidence of the efficacy of couples‐based interventions from the United Kingdom (U.K.). This study explored whether the Parents as Partners (PasP) program, a group‐based intervention developed in the United States, brought about the same benefits in the U.K. The evaluation is based on 97 couples with children from communities with high levels of need, recruited to PasP because they are at high risk for parent and child psychopathology. Both mothers and fathers completed self‐report questionnaires assessing parents’ psychological distress, parenting stress, couple relationship quality and conflict, fathers’ involvement in child care and, importantly, children's adjustment. Multilevel modeling analysis comparing parents’ responses pre‐ and postintervention not only showed substantial improvements for both parents on multiple measures of couple relationship quality, but also improvements in parent and child psychopathology. Analyses also indicated most substantial benefits for couples displaying poorest functioning at baseline. The findings provide initial evidence for the successful implementation of PasP, an American‐origin program, in the U.K., and add support for the concept of the couple relationship as a resource by which to strengthen families.
A pesar de las asociaciones sólidamente establecidas entre la calidad de la relación de pareja y el funcionamiento familiar saludable, y de crecientes datos del ámbito de las intervenciones a nivel internacional, existen pocos o nada de indicios sobre la eficacia de las intervenciones basadas en la pareja en Reino Unido. Este estudio analizó si el programa Parents as Partners (“Padres como Compañeros”, PasP), una intervención grupal desarrollada en Estados Unidos, produjo los mismos beneficios en Reino Unido. La evaluación está basada en 97 parejas con niños provenientes de comunidades con altos niveles de necesidad, a quienes se las reunió para participar en el PasP porque tanto los padres como los niños tienen un riesgo alto de padecer una psicopatología. Tanto las madres como los padres completaron cuestionarios de autoinforme donde se evaluaron los problemas psicológicos de los padres, el estrés de la crianza, la calidad de la relación de pareja y el conflicto, la participación de los padres en el cuidado de los niños y |
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ISSN: | 0014-7370 1545-5300 |
DOI: | 10.1111/famp.12289 |