Using Parent Training Programmes to Teach Social Skills

Abstract

The overarching objective of the three age specific Parents Plus Programs, which are the focus of this chapter, is to help parents foster positive relationships with their children by advancing their skills for promoting prosocial behavior and taking a non-coercive approach to discipline. Specifically, the Parents Plus Early Years Program aims to help parents maximize their children's learning, language and social development, to reduce behavior problems and also to ensure that their children grow up happy and emotionally secure. The Parents Plus Children's Program also aims to help parents curtail children's emotional and behavior problems through positive communication and discipline and to develop more satisfying parent-child relationships. Similarly, the aims of the Parents Plus Adolescents Program are to help parents foster good relationships with their teenage children while also engaging effective communication and discipline strategies to positively influence their children's social, emotional and behavioral development. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)