Parenting Skill Development Program A Community-Based Parenting S

Across the United States, countless children and adolescents experience myriad difficulties in coping with environmental and familial stresses; similarly, parents themselves often struggle to provide their dependent children with the structures, support, nurturing, care and discipline that are all so vital to proper development (Lee, 1994). Shepherd and Rose (1995) noted that primary among the critical factors which must be put into play to ensure that children succeed in mastering the tasks confronting them in society, in school, and in life as a whole is parental efficacy. For families and communities identified as at risk for the development of life-damaging problems (e.g., crime and delinquency, drug abuse, academic failure or school dropout, teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, unemployment and poverty, and other social ills), community-based interventions designed to enhance parenting skills are an important element in the social service delivery system (Lee, 1994).

Thus, helping parents identify their skills deficits and then providing educational and other services that will ameliorate those deficits is a vital part of the social work intervention process. It speaks directly to meeting the needs of adult parents and their dependent children. It addresses the question of how one reduces risk factors that negatively impact upon human development and community stability.

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ed in this review of literature speak to the research questions presented in Chapter I. This includes an overview of the importance of parenting skills, the effects of improved parenting on families, and the types of programs and their efficacy that are available for working with this particular population. First, however, a brief discussion of the strengths perspective is presented to identify the theoretical foundation of the study. The Strengths Perspective Saleebey (1996) reported that the impetus for the evolution of a strengths oriented view of social work practice came from the awareness that U.S. culture and the helping processions are saturated with psychosocial approaches based on individual, family, and community pathology, deficits, problems, abnormality, victimization, and disorder. Practicing from a Strengths Perspective does not require social workers to ignore these issues, but does offer what Saleebey (1996, 1997) calls an opportunity to shift part of the focus in intervention from the weaknesses or deficits exhibited by the client or clients to their resources, strengths or abilities. The Strengths Perspective demands a different way of looking at individuals, families and communities, calling for all to
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