Research on Parenting Education Programs and Their Effectiveness: A Bibliography - Parenting IS Prevention

Carter, N. 1996. See how we grow: A report on the status of parenting education in the U.S. Philadelphia: The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Smith, C.A., D. Cudaback, H.W. Goddard, and J. Myers-Walls. 1994. National extension parent education model of critical parenting practices. Manhattan, KS: Kansas Cooperative Extension Service.

Allen, M. L., P. Brown, and B. Finlay. 1992. Helping children by strengthening families. Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund.

Alvy, K. T. 1994. Parent training today. Studio City, CA: Center for the Improvement of Child Caring.

Barnett, W. S. 1985. The Perry preschool program and its long-term effects: A benefit-cost analysis. Ypsilanti, MI: High/Scope Press.

Berrick, J. 1988. Parental involvement in child abuse prevention training: What do they learn? Child Abuse and Neglect, 12, 543 ff.

Bryant, P. 1993. Availability of existing statewide parent education and support programs, and the need for these programs nationwide. Working paper No. 861. Chicago: The National Center on Child Abuse Prevention Research.

Cantelon, S. 1994. Family strengthening for high-risk youth. Fact Sheet #8. Washington, DC: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Cantelon, S., and D. LeBoeuf. 1997. Keeping young people in school: Community programs that work. Washington, DC: Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Carter, N. 1996. See how we grow: A report on the status of parenting education in the U.S. Philadelphia: The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC). 1996(?). The CICC parent training and family life catalog. 2nd ed. Studio City, CA: CICC.

Center for the Study of Social Policy. 1991. Leveraging dollars, leveraging change. Refinancing and restructuring children's and family services in five States. Washington, DC: Author.

Cochran, M., and F. Wooelever. 1983. Beyond the deficit model: The empowerment of parents with information and informal supports. In I. Siegel and I. Laosa (eds.), Changing Families. New York: Plenum Publishing Co.

Dornbusch, S. M., J. Morley, and N. Seer. 1993. A meta-analysis of parenting education programs for children from birth to three years of age. Standford Center for the Study of Families, Children and Youth. (Adapted from a paper presented to the Carnegie Task Force on Meeting the Needs of Children.)

Dunst, C. 1995. Key characteristics and features of community-based family support programs. Chicago: Family Resource Coalition.

Earle, R. B. 1995. Helping to prevent child abuse-and future criminal consequences: Hawaii Healthy Start Program. NIJ Program Focus. Washington, DC: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Family Resource Coalition. 1994. Empowerment and Latino Families I & II, 13 (spring/summer).

Family Resource Coalition. 1991. Strengthening Youth and Family Resistance to Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse, X (3).

Fenichel, E. (ed.). 1992. Learning through supervision and mentorship to support the development of infants, toddlers and their families: A sourcebook. Arlington, VA: Zero to Three/National Center for Clinical Infant Programs.

Gamby, D. S., et al. 1995. Long-term outcomes of early childhood programs. Future of Children, 5(3).

Goetz, K. (ed.). 1992. Programs to strengthen families: Resource guide. 3rd ed. Chicago: Family Resource Coalition.

Halpern, R. 1990. Parent support and education programs. Children and Youth Services Review, 12, 285–308.

Henggeler, S. W. 1997. Treating serious anti-social behavior in youth: The MST approach. Washington, DC: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Johnson, D. L., and T. B. Walker. 1991. Final report of an evaluation of the Avance Parent Education and Family Support Program. Report to Carnegie Foundation. San Antonio, TX: Avance.

Justice Research and Statistics Association. 1995. Youth, drugs and violence: Results from State and local program workshops. Sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Washington, DC: Author.

Kagan, S. L., and B. Weissbourd (eds.). 1994. Putting families first: America's family support movement and the challenge of change. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Kagan, S., D. Powell, B. Weissbourd, and G. Zigler (eds.). 1987. American family support programs. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Kraemer, J., M. Lopez, and C. Lucas (eds.). 1995. Building partnerships: Models of family support and education programs. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Family Research Project.

Kumpfer, K. L. 1993. Strengthening America's families: Promising parenting strategies for delinquency prevention. User's Guide. NCJ140781. Washington, DC: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Juvenile Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.

Levine, J. A., D. Murphy, and S. Wilson. 1993. Getting men involved: Strategies for early childhood programs. New York: Scholastic, Inc.

Luster, T., and L. Okagaki (eds.). 1993. Parenting: An ecological perspective. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Miller, P. 1993. Building villages to raise our children: Evaluation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Family Research Project.

Moses, M. C. 1995. Keeping incarcerated mothers and their daughters together: Girl Scouts beyond bars. NIJ Program Focus. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice.

Myers, H. F., K. T. Alvy, A. Arrington, M. A. Richardson, M. Marigna, R. Huff, M. Main, and M. D. Newcomb. 1992. The impact of a parent training program on inner-city African American families. Journal of Community Psychology, 20 (April), 132–147.

National Commission on Children. 1991. Beyond rhetoric: A new American agenda for children and families. Washington, DC: Author.

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. 1997. Preventing drug abuse among youth: An overview of community-, family-, and school-based programs. Report of satellite teleconference produced by OJJDP in association with Juvenile Justice Telecommunications Assistance Project, Eastern Kentucky University Training Resource Center. Washington, DC: OJJDP.

Olds, D. L., and H. Kitzman. 1993. Review of research on home visiting for pregnant women and parents of young children. In Home Visiting: The Future of Children, 3 (3).

Porter, T., and R. Rice. 1995. Walking the talk: A study of training in five national family support programs. New York: Bank Street College of Education.

Powell, D. R. 1986. Research in review: Parent education and support programs. Young Children, 45, 47–53.

Powell, D. R., and J. W. Eisenstadt. 1988. Parent education as early childhood intervention. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Schorr, L. B. 1989. Effective services for children and families. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Sherman, L., et al. 1997. Preventing crime: What works, what doesn't, what's promising. A report to the U.S. Congress, prepared for the National Institute of Justice. Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice. (Especially Chapter Four: Family Based Crime Prevention)

Skerrett, P., and D. Lyons. 1994. Breaking the cycle. NIJ Research Report Series. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice.

Smith, C. A., D. Cudaback, H. W. Goddard, and J. Myers-Walls. 1994. National extension parent education model of critical parenting practices. Manhattan, Kansas: Kansas Cooperative Extension Service.

Unger, D., and D. Powell (eds.). 1990. Families as nurturing systems: Support across the life span. New York: Haworth Press.

Weiss, H., and F. H. Jacobs (eds.). 1988. Evaluating family programs. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine.

Wingo, R. R., and C. Mertensmeyer. 1994. The guide for choosing African American parenting curricula. Missouri: ParentLink.

1994. The guide for choosing Hispanic/Latino American parenting curricula. Missouri: ParentLink.

1994. The guide for choosing Native American parenting curricula. Missouri: ParentLink.


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