Parent Commitment Research Articles

EXPLORING DEPARTMENTAL HEADS’ EXPERIENCES OF MANAGING LEARNER DISCIPLINE THROUGH PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA

This qualitative research explores the experiences of departmental heads in managing learner discipline through the facilitation of parental involvement. Recognizing the critical role of parental engagement in shaping learner behavior, this study aims to uncover the challenges hindering departmental heads from involving parents in learner discipline and strategies that can be adopted to effectively enhance parental involvement in learner discipline. This study adopts a qualitative research approach through the lens of a constructivist research paradigm. 15 participants, comprising ten departmental heads and five principals, were selected for the study. Data were collected using one-on-one, semi-structured interviews and analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Data indicates that the challenges hindering departmental heads from involving parents in learner discipline are communication barriers, inadequate collaboration, inadequate educational leadership training, inadequate parent commitment, as well as social and contextual factors of the parents. Amidst these challenges, the study advanced strategies that departmental heads can implement to enhance parental involvement in learner discipline, which include training and professional development, improved parent-school partnerships, orientation programs, and collaboration with parents.

Stay just a little bit longer: A scoping review of foster parent engagement in the U.S

Despite the growing need for quality foster homes, retaining foster parents continues to be a challenge. A significant burden is placed on child welfare agencies to recruit, train, and retain quality foster parents to ensure available homes for children in need. To synthesize what is known about foster parent engagement, this article describes the modifiable factors impacting foster parent satisfaction, commitment, and retention. This scoping review engaged in a comprehensive exploration of the literature by mapping out the extent, range, and nature of foster parent engagement, screening studies based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, and summarizing findings. Twenty-three articles met inclusion criteria. Three themes emerged as factors impacting foster parent engagement: (1) training, (2) resources, and (3) relationships. Eight studies evaluated unspecified training and three studies examined evidenced-informed training interventions. Resources were explored in ten studies and included concrete resources such as respite, financial assistance, and transportation. Relationships, categorized as professional social support (n = 15) and personal social support (n = 16), were also studied. A notable finding of this scoping review is the importance of relationship building across foster care stakeholders. Specifically, strengthened relationships between foster parents and caseworkers improved outcomes across all components of foster care engagement (satisfaction, commitment, and retention). Further studies are needed to understand the ways in which specialized training and social support improve foster parent engagement over time.

Comparing the Effectiveness of Transdiagnostic Child Treatment with and Without Maternal Acceptance and Commitment Intervention on Children's Mindful Attention Indices and Mothers' Psychological Syndromes with Corona Anxiety

Objective: The aim of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of parent-focused transdiagnostic child treatment with and without maternal acceptance and commitment intervention on mindful attention indices and psychological syndromes in mothers with corona anxiety. Methods and Materials: This quasi-experimental research employed a pre-test-post-test design with two experimental groups and one control group, accompanied by a two-month follow-up period. The population consisted of all anxious second-grade primary school students during the second half of the year 2021-2022 in Districts 1 and 2 of Sari city, whose mothers also had corona anxiety. The transdiagnostic parent-child centered intervention combined with acceptance and commitment therapy for the parent was applied in the first experimental group, while the transdiagnostic parent-child centered intervention without acceptance and commitment therapy for the parent was applied in the second experimental group, and the control group received no intervention. Sixty participants were selected through purposive sampling and then randomly assigned into three groups (Group 1: transdiagnostic parent-child centered intervention with parent acceptance and commitment intervention (20 participants), Group 2: transdiagnostic child-centered intervention without parent acceptance and commitment intervention (20 participants), and Group 3: control group (20 participants)). Data collection for children utilized mindfulness questionnaires, and for mothers, psychological syndrome questionnaires including the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) were used. For implementing the interventions, Ehrenreich-May et al.'s (2019) transdiagnostic intervention (12 90-minute group sessions twice a week) and Eifert et al.'s (2017) acceptance and commitment therapy (12 90-minute group sessions twice a week) were employed. Data were analyzed using repeated measures ANOVA with SPSS software, version 26. Findings: The results of the repeated measures ANOVA for children showed that the effectiveness of the transdiagnostic child treatment combined with maternal acceptance and commitment intervention was significantly greater in terms of mindful attention indices than the transdiagnostic child treatment without maternal acceptance and commitment intervention. The results for mothers indicated no significant difference in the effectiveness of the transdiagnostic child treatment with versus without maternal acceptance and commitment intervention regarding psychological syndromes (anxiety, stress, depression, and spirituality; gratitude towards God) and COVID-19 psychological syndromes (obsessive thoughts, quality of life during the corona period, except for corona distress), although both interventions showed significant effectiveness over time. Conclusion: Therefore, it is recommended that therapists and counselors use this treatment alongside other therapeutic interventions to improve child-parent interactions.

How families affect aspirational migration amidst political insecurity: The case of Hong Kong

AbstractThe migration literature has examined migrants' political motivations separately from their family's mobility strategies in the face of macro‐political uncertainties. Bridging the two bodies of literature, this study analyses how parental status moderates the relationship between individual political considerations and migration intentions in an increasingly tense political climate. Based on the quantitative data on political protests in Hong Kong, we find that migration intention increases both with mobilisation by protestors and repression by the government. While more active protestors are less likely to migrate, parents who have participated in the protests tend to have a stronger intention to migrate. Our qualitative data explain that despite parent protestors' commitment to the pro‐democratic protests, their encounters with law enforcement create a strong migration intention to ensure their children's political freedom and physical safety. While pro‐government citizens have less intention to migrate than pro‐democracy citizens, both are likely to migrate if they have children. Interviews show that pro‐government citizens' migration hopes for their children's future are de‐politicised. Finally, future‐oriented characteristics of migration motivates parents to prioritise their children's prospects over their obligations to their ageing parents. This study therefore contributes to the understanding of the relationship among migration, politics, and family life.

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Children's behavioral health needs and satisfaction and commitment of foster and adoptive parents: Do trauma-informed services make a difference?

Caring for children in foster or adoptive care with behavioral health needs can severely stress parents, contributing to adverse outcomes for children and families. Trauma-informed services from the child welfare and mental health sectors may help prevent poor outcomes by helping children and parents identify and understand trauma and its impact on children's behavioral health and receive effective treatment. To help understand the role of trauma-informed services for the child welfare population, we examined whether trauma-informed child welfare and mental health services moderated the relationship between children's behavioral health needs and parent satisfaction and commitment. The researchers analyzed data from a cross-sectional statewide survey of foster and adoptive parents (n = 512 respondents, 42% of 1,206 contacted) from one state. Foster (but not adoptive) parent ratings of trauma-informed mental health services significantly moderated the relationship between children's behavioral health needs and foster and adoptive parent satisfaction and commitment. As ratings of trauma-informed mental health services increased, the association between child behavioral health needs and parent satisfaction and commitment became nonsignificant, suggesting a buffering effect. Trauma-informed child welfare services did not moderate the relationship for foster or adoptive parents. Leaders and policymakers are urged to promote trauma-informed mental health services for children involved with child welfare to potentially buffer foster parents against lower parenting satisfaction and commitment. More research is needed to replicate and expand on these findings and to examine the effectiveness of trauma-informed services on other relevant child and family outcomes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).

The importance of therapeutic processes in school-based psychosocial treatment of homework problems in adolescents with ADHD.

To evaluate the importance of therapeutic processes in two brief school-based psychosocial treatments targeting homework problems in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as delivered by school mental health professionals. A sample of 222 middle school students (72% male; Mage = 12.00 years, SD = 1.02) diagnosed with ADHD was randomized to receive either a contingency-management or a skills-based treatment for homework problems. Both treatments included 16 individual sessions (20-min each) and 2 parent/family meetings. Adolescents and school mental health professionals reported on the working alliance in the middle of the treatment; professionals rated adolescent involvement at each of the 16 sessions, parent involvement during both parent meetings, and parent commitment to carry out the established homework plan. Attendance at parent meetings was also recorded. Therapeutic processes predicted objective, parent-reported, and teacher-reported academic outcomes. Parent engagement was particularly important for the contingency-based treatment, whereas working alliance and adolescent involvement were most important for the skills-based treatment. Therapeutic processes such as developing a strong working alliance and engaging parents and students are key elements of treatment delivery and receipt in school-based mental health programming and should be explicitly trained and monitored. (PsycINFO Database Record

A comparison of foster and adoptive parent satisfaction and commitment

Recruitment and retention of foster parents, as well as the potential for disruption and dissolution of adoptions, pose significant problems for child welfare systems and the well-being of children they serve. Parent satisfaction and commitment are two important constructs that have shown bearing on these outcomes for both foster and adoptive parents. Parents who identified as foster only (n = 155), adoptive only (n = 195), or foster and adoptive (n = 60) in one northeastern state were asked about their satisfaction and commitment to the children they cared for through a cross-sectional survey. Results indicated that satisfaction and commitment were significantly higher in parents who identified as adoptive, as well as those who identified as foster and adoptive, versus those who identified as foster only. No statistically significant differences in the variables were found between the adoptive only and foster and adoptive groups. Findings highlight the potential importance of strategies to help support foster parents and the need for more research in this critical area.

Parent Commitment in Children Early Education

This research is meant to know the influence of parent role in children early education (CEE) for children development. The resarch is correlational study. The research subjects are 100 parents having child under five and participating in children early education (PAUD) in Yogyakarta Special Territory. Data are gathered through sended questionaires, interview, and observation. Data are analyzed through quantitive-descriptive and intepretative mixed method. The result finds that there is an influence CEE actvities on children development, tahat can be seen from the effectiveness contribution of the variable (Parents in CEE) on variable (Children Development), as big as 11,945 per cent, that means there are still other variables (88,055 per cent) enfluence children development. The influence can be seen from relative contribution of each variable, namely the parent commitment to give children early education (84,460 per cent), parents perception on children activities in CEE (10,035 per cent) and parents perception on CEE educators and guidance (5,506 per cent). Refer to the result above, it is recommended that the Ministry of Social Affairs through Children Welfare Directory, should hold some program that invite children underfive and parent as family (like parenting), so children are away from any handycap and develop optimally.

Barriers and facilitators to physical activity participation for children with physical disability: comparing and contrasting the views of children, young people, and their clinicians

Purpose: Existing research has explored the barriers and facilitators of physical activity participation for young people with disability from the perspective of young people and their families. However, little research has investigated the views of clinicians who facilitate access to physical activity programs and compared this with their child client’s perspectives.Method: Interviews were conducted with six allied health and sports development professionals associated with a programme which supports access to recreation and sporting activities. Interviews explored facilitators and barriers to physical activity experienced by their clients. Open-ended survey questions investigating barriers and facilitators of physical activity participation were also completed by 28 young people with disability aged 10–17 years who were clients of this programme.Results: The most salient facilitator of participation described by clinicians was “planning programs to promote success and inclusion.” Young people described two main facilitators; “the right people make physical activity fun!” and, similar to clinicians, “appropriate and inclusive opportunities to be active.” The most salient barriers identified by clinicians were “practical limitations” and “time constraints and priorities,” and a novel barrier raised was “whose choice?” The “lack of accessible and inclusive opportunities” was the most pertinent barrier for young people.Conclusions: Clinicians should determine both parent and young person commitment to a physical activity before enrolment. Lack of commitment can act as a barrier to physical activity and a more appropriate intervention could focus on increasing awareness of the benefits of being active, drawing on a Stages of Change based model of service delivery.Implications for rehabilitationRehabilitation professionals seeking to increase physical activity participation for young people with physical disability should discuss readiness and motivation to change prior to any activity/sports referral.Different behaviour change processes are required for young people and for their parents and both are important to achieve physical activity participation.Regular monitoring is important to identify on-going physical and psychological barriers to participation, even for those who were already active.Clinicians should be aware that teenagers may be more ready to be active as they develop greater independence and should raise awareness of the benefits of physical activity.

Parents’ aspirations and commitment with education. Lessons from a randomized control trial in a shantytown

This paper documents the impact of an after-school program called Apoyo Escolar, sited in one of the most vulnerable neighborhoods of a developing country, Uruguay. The outcomes of interest are academic achievement, behavior at school and grade retention. By a field experiment, we explore the interaction effects of being randomly assigned to an after-school program with an indicator of parent commitment – an unaddressed question in previous literature. We found novel results that should guide policy design. Increasing time spent in safe settings does not guarantee academic success: the after-school program is effective in improving academic performance when children have committed parents. And students’ performance at school is highly correlated with parents’ educational expectations. Thus, the interaction between hope, family and after-school for disadvantaged children deserves more attention in policy design.

Piloting a Statewide Home Visiting Quality Improvement Learning Collaborative.

Objective To pilot test a statewide quality improvement (QI) collaborative learning network of home visiting agencies. Methods Project timeline was June 2014-May 2015. Overall objectives of this 8-month initiative were to assess the use of collaborative QI to engage local home visiting agencies and to test the use of statewide home visiting data for QI. Outcome measures were mean time from referral to first home visit, percentage of families with at least three home visits per month, mean duration of participation, and exit rate among infants <6 months. Of 110 agencies, eight sites were selected based on volume, geography, and agency leadership. Our adapted Breakthrough Series model included monthly calls with performance feedback and cross-agency learning. A statewide data system was used to generate monthly run charts. Results Mean time from referral to first home visit was 16.7 days, and 9.4% of families received ≥3 visits per month. Mean participation was 11.7 months, and the exit rate among infants <6 months old was 6.1%. Agencies tested several strategies, including parent commitment agreements, expedited contact after referral, and Facebook forums. No shift in outcome measures was observed, but agencies tracked intermediate process changes using internal site-specific data. Agencies reported positive experiences from participation including more frequent and structured staff meetings. Conclusions for Practice Within a pilot QI learning network, agencies tested and measured changes using statewide and internal data. Potential next steps are to develop and test new metrics with current pilot sites and a larger collaborative.

The Impact of Family Financial Investment on Perceived Parent Pressure and Child Enjoyment and Commitment in Organized Youth Sport

AbstractNinety percent of American youth participate in some form of organized youth sport between the ages of 5 and 18. Parent involvement in this context has recently been characterized as a potentially harmful force in parent–child relations, leading to debate regarding the appropriateness and level of parent involvement in organized youth sport. Despite the rising costs associated with youth sport participation, little empirical effort has been made to examine the potential impact of family financial investment on parent involvement and children's subsequent sport outcomes. The purpose of this study was to address how family financial investment in youth sport influences children's perceptions of parent pressure, sport enjoyment, and commitment to continued participation. Data from a national sample of 163 parent–child dyads illuminated an inverse association between family financial investment and child sport commitment, mediated by children's perceptions of parent pressure and sport enjoyment. The results indicated that family financial investment predicts child commitment through the sequential mediators of perceived parent pressure and child enjoyment. These findings draw attention to many avenues for future research on the potential link among family investment decisions, parent involvement behaviors, and child outcomes in organized youth sport, which may collectively inform the development of parent interventions for youth sport leagues, administrators, and parents.

Charter School Barriers: Do Enrollment Requirements Limit Student Access to Charter Schools?

The potential of the charter school movement to positively influence traditional public education lies in the ability of charter school officials to provide all students access to the curriculum. The aim of this study was to document potential registration and enrollment barriers incorporated into the practices of Colorado charter schools. The barriers discussed in this article include parent commitment requirements, fees, registration, and lottery information. The findings from this study suggest that Colorado charter schools have created specific barriers to registration that could impede some students from fully participating in charter schools. The researchers conclude the study with a call for charter schools to increase transparency related to every aspect of the registration and enrollment process and work to eliminate the identified barriers.

African American School Choice and the Current Race Politics of Charter Schooling: Lessons from History

Through a discussion of the current race politics of charter schooling and a brief, empirical examination of a community-based charter school that I helped to found in California, the public school community control movement in New York City in the late 1960s, and the African American independent school movement and the Council of Independent Black Institutions in the 1970s, I argue that a full understanding of the race politics of charter schooling requires a look at the historical roots of African American school choice. I find that history helps us better understand the complex dynamics of race and school choice. We can understand that African American parent and educator commitment to desegregated schooling is complex and certainly not unwavering; that the distinction between public and private in public education is quite murky; and that the definition of community for purposes of building schools is complicated and that strange bedfellows in African American education are nothing new. I appeal to the history of African American school choice to complicate the current public and scholarly debate on race and charter schooling.

Spécificité du patient pédiatrique en pré-greffe

Renal transplantation is the treatment of choice for end-stage renal disease during childhood. In France, access to transplantation is good and even better for children than for adults. Few contraindications, mostly temporary, might delay the transplantation. The different pathologies leading to end-stage renal disease in children require a specific pre-transplantation examination and a careful choice of the type of donor. Prevalence of disease recurrence is greater in children than in adults. It is one of the most frequent post-transplantation complications and contributes to the increase in patient morbidity and graft failure in our pediatrics cohorts. Kidney donations in North America are for the most part live-donation, which is not the case in France. However, thanks to parent's commitment, the ratio of living donor is currently increasing in France.

Preadoptive child sexual abuse as a predictor of moves in care, adoption disruptions, and inconsistent adoptive parent commitment

Objective To date, little empirical attention has been given to the impact of preadoptive child sexual abuse (CSA) on adoption adjustment. The main objective of the present study was to investigate whether preadoptive CSA was associated with more placement moves, adoption disruption, and inconsistent parental commitment compared to adopted children without histories of CSA. Methods Data were collected from a convenience sample of parents with adopted children ( N = 117) receiving postadoption services in the state of Illinois in 2002. Thirty-three children (28.2%), nearly split evenly by gender, were reported to have histories of sexual abuse. Logistic regression was used to calculate adjusted odds ratios (AOR). Results Preadoptive CSA was significantly associated with increased odds of four or more moves in care (AOR = 9.68; 95% CI = 3.39–27.66), adoption disruptions (AOR = 4.36; 95% CI = 1.1–16.5), and inconsistent parental commitment (AOR = 2.82; 95% CI = 1.0–7.9). Conclusion These results suggest that children with preadoptive histories of sexual abuse are at greater risk of more complex adoption difficulties than adopted children without such histories. Practice implications This study reinforces a small body of research suggesting that CSA profoundly complicates adoption adjustment. Findings from this study indicate that adoptive families of children with preadoptive histories of CSA need an array of preadoption and postadoption service interventions.

Committing to your work, spouse, and children: Implications for work–family conflict

When trying to balance work and family responsibilities, many workers experience conflict between these two roles. Although role commitment has been viewed both as contributing to and alleviating conflict, this relationship has not been fully tested. Using a sample of female nurses and police officers, we examined the direct and indirect relationship of role commitment with work–spouse and work–parent conflict. Increased work–spouse conflict was associated with decreased spouse commitment. Increased work–parent conflict was associated with increased parent commitment but with decreased spouse and job commitment. Job commitment moderated the relationships between irregular work schedules and work–spouse conflict and between job control and work–spouse conflict. Parent commitment moderated the relationship between irregular work schedules and work–parent conflict. These results suggest that, depending on the role, commitment may either alleviate or exacerbate conflict.

Parental and peer attachment and identity development in adolescence

The main aim of this study was to test the situational hypothesis of parent–peer conflict and the parent-peer linkages hypothesis with regard to parental and peer attachment and identity. The situational hypothesis predicts that parental attachment will be associated with school identity and peer attachment with relational identity. The parent–peer linkages hypothesis suggests that parental attachment influences peer attachment and through peer attachment school and relational identity. Data from a survey of 148 middle adolescents from various ethnic groups were used. The findings offer strong support for the situational hypothesis, and only limited evidence in favor of the parent–peer linkages hypothesis. In addition, systematic links were found between parent and peer trust and commitment, and parent and peer communication and exploration. Adolescents from ethnic minority groups reported higher levels of school commitment and exploration compared with indigenous Dutch adolescents. Copyright 2002 The Association for Professionals in Services for Adolescents. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Expatriate adjustment and commitment: the role of host-unit treatment

This article tests the hypotheses that perceived host ethnocentrism will impact negatively on expatriates' work adjustment, host commitment and parent commitment as well as increase the desire to return early from overseas assignments. Hierarchical regression analyses were performed on survey data from 250 international assignees controlling for a wide range of personal, organizational and locational characteristics. As predicted, perceptions of local ethnocentrism had a negative effect on work adjustment and commitment to the host unit, particularly when cultural distance was low. We also found that European expatriates were more likely to react negatively to perceptions of host ethnocentrism than were their American counterparts. In general, there was no support of the hypothesized links between perceived host ethnocentrism and parent-firm commitment or the desire to return early.