Web-Enhanced Pre-Service Training for Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Parents

针对寄养父母、养父母和亲属父母的网络增强职前培训

• 批准号: 8101335
• 负责人: Richard J. Delaney
• 金额: $ 40.87万
• 依托单位: NORTHWEST 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: 2007-07-05 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8101335
• 关键词: Adoption; Adult; Attitude; Birth; Candy; Caregivers; Caring; Child; Child Abuse and Neglect; Child Welfare; Databases; Development; Disabled Persons; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Elements; Empathy; Evaluation; Evaluation Studies; Exercise; Family; Family member; Feasibility Studies; Fostering; Health; Human; Institutes; Instruction; Internet; Knowledge; Learning; Measures; Multimedia; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Personal Satisfaction; Phase; Resources; Sampling; Services; Sexual abuse; Shapes; Site; Speed; Technology; Testing; Training; Training Programs; Visual; Writing; adopted child; experience; follow-up; forging; foster care; foster child; foster parent; improved; interactive multimedia; programs; prospective; satisfaction; skills; tool; trend; usability; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In Phase II we will complete and evaluate a Web-enhanced pre-service training program for prospective foster caregivers. The program, developed by the Institute for Human Services, is a standardized pre-service training curriculum in current use nationally. Face- to-face contact between agencies and parents allows staff to screen and forge relationships with the parents. However, a substantial part of the training involves instructional activities that build knowledge and shape attitudes essential to foster care. Delivering these components online offers distinct advantages: First and foremost, online modules could serve as make-up classes for parents who miss a class. This would allow parents and agencies to complete the entire training without having to devote additional resources for a make-up class or having to restart or delay the training. It would also give other homebound caregivers in the family the opportunity to view the curriculum. The online modules could also be used as an added teaching tool for classroom training. In the proposed program the 12 proposed online training modules would be stand-alone instructional units. In Phase I we developed a foundational module using Flash technology on Child Abuse and Neglect. The feasibility study showed that the interactive multimedia delivery was in fact more effective than the classroom delivery in conveying knowledge; it also received higher user satisfaction ratings than the classroom training; and it was slightly more effective than the classroom training in increasing empathy for birth parents. In Phase II we will develop and evaluate each of the remaining 11 training modules. The online modules will also be produced for CD to accommodate parents who do not have access to high-speed Internet. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Subjects participating in this project will gain important information that will prepare them to be effective resource parents for foster or adopted children. As a result, the quality and skill of their parenting could improve, as well as the well-being of the children in their care.

描述（由申请人提供）：在第二阶段，我们将为未来的寄养照顾者完成并评估网络增强的职前培训计划。该计划由人类服务研究所开发，是目前全国使用的标准化职前培训课程。机构和家长之间的面对面接触使工作人员能够筛选家长并与家长建立关系。然而，培训的很大一部分涉及教学活动，这些活动旨在积累对寄养至关重要的知识和塑造态度。在线提供这些组件具有明显的优势：首先，在线模块可以作为缺课家长的补课。这将使家长和机构能够完成整个培训，而无需投入额外的资源来补课，也无需重新启动或推迟培训。它还将使家庭中其他居家护理人员有机会查看课程。在线模块还可以用作课堂培训的附加教学工具。在拟议的计划中，拟议的 12 个在线培训模块将是独立的教学单元。在第一阶段，我们使用 Flash 技术开发了一个关于虐待和忽视儿童的基础模块。可行性研究表明，交互式多媒体教学在传播知识方面实际上比课堂教学更有效；与课堂培训相比，它还获得了更高的用户满意度；在增强对亲生父母的同理心方面，它比课堂培训稍微有效一些。在第二阶段，我们将开发并评估其余 11 个培训模块。在线模块还将制作成 CD，以适应无法访问高速互联网的家长。公共卫生相关性：参与该项目的受试者将获得重要信息，帮助他们成为寄养或收养儿童的有效资源父母。结果，他们的养育质量和技能可以得到提高，以及他们照顾的孩子的福祉。