The goal of this clinical trial is to determine whether a brief positive parenting seminar series delivered virtually helps teach parents additional tools and strategies to support healthy child development, encourage good behavior, and manage misbehavior, while improving parenting practices and child outcomes for parents of children ages 2-12. The main questions it aims to answer are whether parents are satisfied with the intervention and find the strategies helpful and acceptable, whether the intervention leads to changes in parenting behaviors (e.g., positive parenting) and child outcomes (e.g., emotional and behavioral problems), and how removing the active discussion from the seminars impacts parents' ability to improve their parenting skills and their child's outcomes. Researchers will compare three groups: parents receiving the seminars with a group discussion, parents receiving the seminars without a group discussion, and parents on a waitlist. This will help determine if group discussions lead to greater improvements in parenting practices and child outcomes. Participants attended three online parenting seminars via telehealth (if assigned to a seminar group). They completed surveys before, during, and after the seminars to share their experiences and provide feedback. Participants in the waitlist group completed surveys at the beginning and end of the study, and will participate in the seminars after the study period.
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Parent Satisfaction
Timeframe: Weekly, through intervention completion, average of 3 weeks.
Acceptability
Timeframe: Weekly, through intervention completion, average of 3 weeks.
Positive Parenting
Timeframe: Baseline, 2-month, and 4-month follow-up assessments.
Negative Parenting
Timeframe: Baseline, 2-month, and 4-month follow-up assessments.
Parental Psychological Control
Timeframe: Baseline, 2-month, and 4-month follow-up assessments.
Parental Knowledge of Effective Parenting Strategies
Timeframe: Baseline, 2-month, and 4-month follow-up assessments.
Parental Hope
Timeframe: Baseline, weekly, through intervention completion (average of 3 weeks), 2-month, and 4-month follow-up assessments.
Parental Self-Efficacy
Timeframe: Baseline, weekly, through intervention completion (average of 3 weeks), 2-month, and 4-month follow-up assessments.
Global Satisfaction
Timeframe: 2-months