Ending the physical punishment of children : a guide for clinicians and practitioners / edited by Elizabeth T. Gershoff and Shawna J. Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gershoff, Elizabeth T., editor.

Lee, Shawna J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporal punishment of children.

Corporal punishment of children--Psychological aspects.

Punishment--psychology.

Psychology, Child.

Psychological aspects.

Medical Subjects:

Punishment--psychology.

Psychology, Child.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 189 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Although many parents use spankings to discipline their children, research shows that corporal punishment harms children and is ineffective at changing their behavior. This book presents 15 effective interventions designed to stop and prevent parents from physically punishing their children. Each chapter of this book reviews a different intervention, summarizes its evidence base, and generalizability across populations and contexts, and explains how to implement it in community and mental health settings. Some strategies explicitly discourage parents from using physical punishment, while others focus on teaching alternative ways to manage children's behavior. Some can be incorporated into individual, family, or group therapy, while others educate the public in hospitals or other community settings. All of the strategies will help parents change their behavior in ways that promote their children's healthy development. Therapists, social workers, other community health and safety professionals, and policy makers will all appreciate the diverse array of strategies represented in the book"-- Provided by publisher.

"The goal of this book is to identify and describe several of the leading evidence-based interventions that have successfully reduced parents' use of, or positive attitudes about, physical punishment. The authors describe 15 such interventions. The book is an in-depth follow-up to an article the authors published that provided narrative summaries of approaches to reduce physical punishment. Each chapter provides information about the evidence base for the intervention, its generalizability across populations and contexts, and how the intervention can be implemented in community and clinical settings. To facilitate comparisons between interventions, each chapter follows the same general structure, first describing the intervention and its content that is relevant to physical punishment and how the intervention has been implemented to date. Next, authors review the evidence base regarding the intervention; most interventions have information from process evaluations, and all have evidence from outcome evaluations. Each chapter includes a discussion of limitations as well as suggested future uses of the program. The volume itself concludes with an afterword that summarizes common themes and discusses directions for future work in this area. The book is targeted to clinicians, community practitioners, and policy-makers who are interested in effective interventions to reduce and prevent physical punishment at the individual, group, or even societal level. It includes information that interventionists require to decide which intervention to implement, including costs and how to obtain intervention materials."--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

Brief Online Education / George W. Holden & Alan S. Brown

Alternative Biblical Interpretations Intervention / Cindy Miller-Perrin & Robin Perrin

Baby Books / Stephanie M. Reich & Guadalupe Díaz

Motivational Interviewing / George W. Holden & Grant W. O. Holland

Play Nicely / Seth Scholer

A Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) / Howard Dubowitz

The Video Interaction Project (VIP) / Caitlin Canfield, Erin Roby, & Alan Mendelsohn

An Educational Intervention for Health Care Providers / Gail Hornor, Saribel Garcia Quinones, Deborah Bretl, Ellen Chiocca, Carrie Donnell, Katharine Doughty, Bridget Marshall, & Kristen Morris

Positive Discipline in Every Day Parenting (PDEP) / Joan E. Durrant

The ACT Raising Safe Kids Program / Michele Knox & Morgan Dynes

The Chicago Parent Program / Susan M. Breitenstein, Deborah Gross, & Amie F. Bettencourt

The Moms' Empowerment Program / Andrew Grogan-Kaylor, Kathryn H. Howell, Maria M. Galano, & Sandra A. Graham-Bermann

Triple P

Positive Parenting Program / Ronald J. Prinz

No Hit Zones / Elizabeth T. Gershoff

Legal Prohibitions on Physical Punishment / Elizabeth T. Gershoff & Joan E. Durrant.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2019.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Ending the physical punishment of children

ISBN:

9781433831140

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.