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- Title
Baby Elmo Leads Dads Back to the Nursery: How a Relationship-Based Intervention for Incarcerated Fathers Enhances Father and Child Outcomes.
- Authors
Richeda, Benjamin; Smith, Kelly; Perkins, Emily; Simmons, Sydney; Cowan, Philip; Pape Cowan, Carolyn; Rodriguez, Jennifer; Shauffer, Carole; Barr, Rachel
- Abstract
Although children's contact with involved, committed, nonresidential fathers can improve social, emotional, cognitive, and academic outcomes, fathers have largely been absent from parenting interventions that overlook men's role as a critical parenting partner. This article details research showing that young incarcerated fathers' attitudes about--and communication and responsiveness to--their very young children improved following a brief psychoeducational intervention and describes a second pilot project with child-welfare- involved fathers and families. The projects enrolling high-risk, difficult-to-engage parents yielded promising findings, demonstrating how building interventions that are inclusive of fathers stands to benefit child outcomes.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; FATHER-child relationship; FATHERHOOD; INTERVIEWING; PRISONERS; RESEARCH methodology; REHABILITATION of people with mental illness; PARENTING; TEENAGE fathers; GROUP process; FAMILY relations; HUMAN services programs; INDEPENDENT living; EVALUATION of human services programs; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Zero to Three, 2015, Vol 35, Issue 5, p25
- ISSN
0736-8038
- Publication type
Article