The Parental Daily Diary
| Autor: | George C. Tremblay, Bernard Ewigman, Connie Popkey, Lizette Peterson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Child abuse Self-Assessment Personality Inventory Psychometrics Psychological intervention Mothers Poison control Anger Sensitivity and Specificity Suicide prevention Medical Records Developmental psychology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Behavior Therapy Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child Abuse Parenting 05 social sciences Behavior change Infant 050301 education Mother-Child Relations Social relation Clinical Psychology Child Preschool Female Observational study Psychology 0503 education Discipline Follow-Up Studies 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Behavior Modification. 26:627-647 |
| ISSN: | 1552-4167 0145-4455 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/014544502236654 |
| Popis: | There is a substantial deficit of sensitive measures of parental discipline in the area of prevention, generally, and in child maltreatment prevention specifically, despite reports that over a million children experience maltreatment in the United States every year. Part of the challenge in locating such measures is the impossibility of obtaining accurate observational measures of the degree of harsh discipline, unless extremely large populations are used. The majority of studies on harsh discipline have dealt with this problem by using self-report instruments or proxy observation tasks (such as observing mother-child interactions in a compliance framework). The most well-known self-report instruments, such as the Child Abuse Potential Inventory (Milner, 1986), are constructed to measure parental pathology in maltreating parents rather than to identify parents who might benefit from preventive endeavors. In contrast, there are no well standardized measures of mother-child interaction that document a sensitivity to the presence of harsh discipline, possibly due to the clear pressure of social desirability problems. This paper outlines a daily self-observation measure of parental disciplinary behavior in the form of a diary. This selfmonitoring instrument offered data on the overall feelings and disciplinary behaviors used daily following each session on parenting group interventions. The study showed a gradual decrease in physical punishment and a gradual increase in planned ignoring across treatment, as these were introduced as part of an ongoing curriculum. The use of an explicit technique, such as timeout, increased abruptly rather than gradually and effects were seen only after specific instruction. Advantages and future applications of this kind of ongoing self-observation measure of treatment progress are described. |
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