Today, I am presenting two studies of parenting. The first a positive approach and the second focused on predictors of harsh parenting and recommended interventions. First, Resnik, Garbacz, Stormshak & McIntyre (2023) published “Family-centered Prevention to Enhance Proactive Parenting and Parental Self-Efficacy During Early Elementary School” in Journal of Family Psychology. Here’s the abstract:

I am presenting here an edited version of an article that I think is important to anyone dealing with immigrant clients. Eltanamly, Leijten, van Roekel, Mouton, Pluess & Overbeek (2002) published “Strengthening Parental Self-efficacy and Resilience: A within-subject experimental study with refugee parents of adolescents” in Child Development. It is longer than usual but may be helpful: