Education Center for Adoptive Parents Online

养父母在线教育中心

• 批准号: 7326674
• 负责人: Adam John Wendt
• 金额: $ 17.3万
• 依托单位: IRIS MEDIA, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2009-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7326674
• 关键词: Adopted; Adoption; Attitude; Behavioral; Belief; Child; Communication; Competence; Complement; Complex; Development; Education; Ensure; Evaluation; Face; Family; Internet; Intervention; Knowledge; Left; Maintenance; Mediating; Mediator of activation protein; Outcome; Parenting Education; Parenting behavior; Parents; Phase; Problem behavior; Provider; Randomized Controlled Trials; Rate; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Self Efficacy; Services; Testing; Training; Training Programs; Waiting Lists; Youth; adopted child; improved; innovation; interest; programs; prototype; psychologic; skills; trial comparing

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Dramatic changes have taken place in adoption practice in the U.S. over the last three decades, leaving adoptive parents with a complex set of issues in raising their children. Researchers consistently find a disproportionate rate of behavior problems and psychological maladjustment among adopted youth, adding to the challenges adoptive parents face. Evidence suggests that parenting competence is a primary mediator in adopted children's adjustment, prompting experts to call for effective and accessible adoptive parenting education. Despite this call, many adoptive parents are uncertain about their ability to parent effectively. Generalized parenting education lacks content that is specific to the needs and interests of adoptive families, and educational resources targeted to adoptive parents are not easily accessible, often containing inaccurate information, and providing little opportunity for the practice and maintenance of skills. There is a compelling need for adoptive parenting education that is accessible, research validated, and that provides adoptive parents with needed knowledge and skills. The central aim of this project is to enhance the competence of adoptive parents, and ultimately advance the long-term healthy adjustment of adopted children, by creating and evaluating a parent- training program uniquely tailored to adoptive parents, The Education Center for Adoptive Parents Online (ECAPO). Grounded in a clear theoretical framework, ECAPO parent training materials will target factors known to mediate the effects of risk on adopted children's outcomes, and will be delivered online using a unique set of skill-building instructional components through an innovative web delivery platform (IRISedOnline). A unique feature of IRISedOnline is that it will enable adoption service providers to incorporate ECAPO into their existing websites to complement and improve their capacity to effectively serve adoptive families. In Phase I, we will develop the first program module: Communication about adoption-related issues in the family, and evaluate the feasibility of this prototype by examining its impact on adoptive parent knowledge, communication, attitudes, behavioral intentions, self-efficacy, and consumer acceptance. Establishing feasibility in Phase I will ensure the successful extension of its instructional and technological approach to the Phase II effort. In Phase II, we will test the efficacy of the entire training resource by conducting a large randomized controlled trial comparing outcomes from the intervention group to a wait-list control.

描述（由申请人提供）：过去三十年来，美国的收养实践发生了巨大的变化，给养父母留下了一系列复杂的抚养孩子的问题。研究人员一致发现，被收养的青少年出现行为问题和心理失调的比例过高，这加剧了养父母面临的挑战。有证据表明，养育能力是收养儿童适应的主要调节因素，这促使专家呼吁开展有效且易于接受的收养养育教育。尽管有这样的呼吁，许多养父母仍然不确定自己有效养育子女的能力。广义的亲子教育缺乏专门针对收养家庭的需求和兴趣的内容，针对养父母的教育资源不容易获得，往往包含不准确的信息，并且几乎没有提供实践和维持技能的机会。人们迫切需要一种易于获得、经研究验证的收养父母教育，并为养父母提供所需的知识和技能。该项目的核心目标是通过创建和评估专门为养父母量身定制的家长培训计划，提高养父母的能力，最终促进被养子女的长期健康适应，养父母在线教育中心（ECAPO）。 ECAPO家长培训材料以清晰的理论框架为基础，将针对已知的调节风险对收养儿童结果影响的因素，并将通过创新的网络交付平台（IRISedOnline）使用一套独特的技能培养教学组件在线交付。 IRISedOnline 的一个独特功能是，它将使收养服务提供商能够将 ECAPO 纳入其现有网站，以补充和提高其有效服务收养家庭的能力。在第一阶段，我们将开发第一个项目模块：家庭中收养相关问题的沟通，并通过考察其对收养父母知识、沟通、态度、行为意图、自我效能和行为的影响来评估该原型的可行性。消费者的接受度。第一阶段的可行性确定将确保其教学和技术方法成功扩展到第二阶段的工作。在第二阶段，我们将通过进行一项大型随机对照试验来比较干预组和候补名单对照的结果来测试整个培训资源的有效性。