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Practitioners’ Views And Use Of Evidence-Based Treatment: Positive Attitudes But Missed Opportunities In Children’S Services, Rae Thomas, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Mark Chaffin
Practitioners’ Views And Use Of Evidence-Based Treatment: Positive Attitudes But Missed Opportunities In Children’S Services, Rae Thomas, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Mark Chaffin
Rae Thomas
The extent evidence-based treatments (EBTs) are used in clinical practice within the Australian therapeutic child welfare sector is unknown. In this study, we investigated practitioners' knowledge, attitudes, and use of EBT when providing interventions to children and families and how the intended outcomes of interventions are evaluated. Practitioners (N = 112) from 41 non-government organizations were surveyed and reported few barriers to implementing EBTs and positive attitudes. While just over half the practitioners surveyed provided an accurate definition of EBT, 72 % of practitioners reported using EBTs in their clinical practice. Of those, 88 % reported modifying the EBT, however …
Can Caregiver Depression Bring A Good Parenting Intervention Down?: The Case Of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, Mark Scholes, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Rae Thomas
Can Caregiver Depression Bring A Good Parenting Intervention Down?: The Case Of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, Mark Scholes, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Rae Thomas
Rae Thomas
Depressed caregivers who present for parenting assistance often display excess difficulties with maintaining positive parent-child interactions and report that they cannot manage their children’s problem behaviours. In addition to this, they often report other life stressors such as marital distress, lack of social support and/or socioeconomic disadvantage. This confluence of problems means that engaging depressed caregivers in parenting services can be challenging and depression is believed to impede successful intervention outcomes. For example, research has shown that depressed participants are at increased risk of intervention dropout and that they more often fail to maintain positive parenting behaviours (Assemany & McIntosh, …
Behavioral Outcomes Of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy And Triple P – Positive Parenting Program: A Review And Meta-Analysis, Rae Thomas, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck
Behavioral Outcomes Of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy And Triple P – Positive Parenting Program: A Review And Meta-Analysis, Rae Thomas, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck
Rae Thomas
We conducted a review and meta-analyses of 24 studies to evaluate and compare the outcomes of two widely disseminated parenting interventions—Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and Triple P-Positive Parenting Program. Participants in all studies were caregivers and 3- to 12-year-old children. In general, our analyses revealed positive effects of both interventions, but effects varied depending on intervention length, components, and source of outcome data. Both interventions reduced parent-reported child behavior and parenting problems. The effect sizes for PCIT were large when outcomes of child and parent behaviors were assessed with parent-report, with the exclusion of Abbreviated PCIT, which had moderate effect sizes. …