Program Profile: Triple P: Positive Parenting Program

This is a comprehensive parent-training program designed to enhance parental competence and prevent or alter dysfunctional parenting practices.

Evidence Rating: Effective | One study

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This is a comprehensive parent-training program designed to enhance parental competence and prevent or alter dysfunctional parenting practices. By enhancing parenting practices, the program seeks to reduce family risk factors for child maltreatment and children’s behavioral and emotional problems. The program is rated Effective. There were statistically significant reductions in substantiated child maltreatment cases, out-of-home placements, and child maltreatment injuries.

An Effective rating implies that implementing the program is likely to result in the intended outcome(s).

This program's rating is based on evidence that includes at least one high-quality randomized controlled trial.

Date Created: July 17, 2024
Program Snapshot

Age: 0 - 12

Gender: Male, Female

Race/Ethnicity: White, Black, Hispanic, American Indians/Alaska Native

Geography: Suburban Urban Rural

Setting (Delivery): Other Community Setting, Home

Program Type: Community Awareness/Mobilization, Parent Training

Targeted Population: Children Exposed to Violence, Families

Current Program Status: Active

Matthew R. Sanders
Professor and Director
Parenting and Family Support Centre, University of Queensland

4072
United States

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