Evaluating Parent Gym: a community implemented universal parenting programme
This study demonstrated that the universal Parent Gym programme is effective across a wide range of parents and has the potential to be a positive social resource for community de livery. Originality/value This is the first rigorous study of Parent Gym. It adds to the limited evidence about parenting programmes delivered outside of trials, as part of normal service delivery. With this evidence, parent choice of a suitable evidence-based programme is increased. (Source: Journal of Children's Services)
Source: Journal of Children's Services - May 2, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Care leavers ’ views about transition: a literature review
This study analyses qualitative data, thus constituting a response to policy calls for care leaver views to be central to transition processes. (Source: Journal of Children's Services)
Source: Journal of Children's Services - March 25, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Children ’s CBT skills, metacognition, empathy, and theory of mind
This study provides evidence for the cognitive and affective skills that might predict the outcome of CBT in children. Metacognition and empathy predict children’s ability to relate thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and therefore may moderate the efficacy of CBT. (Source: Journal of Children's Services)
Source: Journal of Children's Services - January 23, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Patterns of participation in the Grow parenting program
Journal of Children's Services, Ahead of Print. Purpose Employing brief, low-intensity, face-to-face parenting programs can result in improvements in parenting and child behavior; however, their usefulness is often limited by low participation rates. Online technologies are increasingly presented as a panacea for promoting program reach in a cost-effective way. The extant literature, however, provides limited guidance on issues around the implementation of online parenting programs. Grow is a universal, health-promoting parenting program that targets families with 5 –10 year olds and was developed for face-to-face deliv...
Source: Journal of Children's Services - January 16, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Change and Continuity in Children ’s Services
Journal of Children's Services,Volume 13, Issue 3/4, Page 134-135, December 2018. (Source: Journal of Children's Services)
Source: Journal of Children's Services - November 21, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Family factors and fruit and vegetable consumption in Chinese preschool children living in Hong Kong
This study highlights the potential protective roles of various family factors, in particular authoritative parenting style and parental feeding practices, such as role modeling, moderate restrictive practices for less healthy foods, avoidance of forced feeding, and not using junk food as reward in relation to meeting FV recommendation in children. The role of grandparents in influencing the young children’s eating behaviors within the Chinese family warrants further investigation. (Source: Journal of Children's Services)
Source: Journal of Children's Services - November 15, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Family factors and fruit and vegetable consumption in Chinese preschool children living in Hong Kong
This study highlights the potential protective roles of various family factors, in particular authoritative parenting style and parental feeding practices, such as role modeling, moderate restrictive practices for less healthy foods, avoidance of forced feeding, and not using junk food as reward in relation to meeting FV recommendation in children. The role of grandparents in influencing the young children’s eating behaviors within the Chinese family warrants further investigation. (Source: Journal of Children's Services)
Source: Journal of Children's Services - November 15, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Roles and capacities of Thai family development centres
This study fills a gap in knowledge about FDC volunteer roles and suggests a need for training that focuses on teamwork rather than specialist lan guage expertise. (Source: Journal of Children's Services)
Source: Journal of Children's Services - November 12, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The activity does not archive well: comparing audio and written records of supervision case discussions in Children ’s Services
Journal of Children's Services, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast what is spoken about in supervision case discussions in Children ’s Services with what subsequently appears in the written record on the child’s file. As an exploratory study, the authors set two research questions – how do supervision conversations and corresponding records compare? And how do social work supervisors make use of these records? Design/met hodology/approach The authors sampled ten pairs of supervision audio recordings and written records from the child’s file. Using a content analysis appro...
Source: Journal of Children's Services - October 18, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
