Description:
The Parenting Skills Program consists of 18 group sessions and two workshops. Each session is approximately 2 hours in length, but in cases of high group interest, may extend to 2½ hours. The Program is intended to foster and support parents who show a commitment to developing or improving a healthy family. It is designed to help parents to develop and improve the understanding and skills that are required to successfully relate to their families, and particularly to their children. This program is based on the cognitive development model; it strives to improve participants' cognitive functioning, while imparting parenting skills.
The Parenting Skills Program is not based on any "typical" family structure. It accommodates a wide range of structures, including single parent homes, stepfamilies, and blended families. It is recognized that children who are raised in unhealthy family situations risk suffering from serious behavioral and emotional problems that may result in poor social adjustment, poor educational performance, delinquency, running away, and suicide. At the extreme end of the continuum, one of the most tragic results is that these children reproduce parental actions, or inaction, when they become parents themselves. Therefore, this Program also contributes to breaking a tragic cycle that places future generations of children at risk.
The Objective: The objective of the Parenting Skills Program is to help parents to improve their basic parenting competencies by: teaching them relevant facts about families, the role of parents, child development, and children’s needs; developing positive parenting skills in the following key areas: communication, problem-solving, emotion management, and effective discipline; developing realistic expectations about children’s behavior; developing realistic expectations and plans about their parenting role, teaching skills that will enable them to know when, where, and how to access a broader range of parenting/child health support and development services within their local community.
The Parenting Skills Program consists of 18 group sessions and two workshops. Each session is approximately 2 hours in length, but in cases of high group interest, may extend to 2½ hours. The Program is intended to foster and support parents who show a commitment to developing or improving a healthy family. It is designed to help parents to develop and improve the understanding and skills that are required to successfully relate to their families, and particularly to their children. This program is based on the cognitive development model; it strives to improve participants' cognitive functioning, while imparting parenting skills.
The Parenting Skills Program is not based on any "typical" family structure. It accommodates a wide range of structures, including single parent homes, stepfamilies, and blended families. It is recognized that children who are raised in unhealthy family situations risk suffering from serious behavioral and emotional problems that may result in poor social adjustment, poor educational performance, delinquency, running away, and suicide. At the extreme end of the continuum, one of the most tragic results is that these children reproduce parental actions, or inaction, when they become parents themselves. Therefore, this Program also contributes to breaking a tragic cycle that places future generations of children at risk.
The Objective: The objective of the Parenting Skills Program is to help parents to improve their basic parenting competencies by: teaching them relevant facts about families, the role of parents, child development, and children’s needs; developing positive parenting skills in the following key areas: communication, problem-solving, emotion management, and effective discipline; developing realistic expectations about children’s behavior; developing realistic expectations and plans about their parenting role, teaching skills that will enable them to know when, where, and how to access a broader range of parenting/child health support and development services within their local community.
