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

描述（由申请人提供）：在第二阶段，我们将完成并评估一个基于网络的面向未来寄养看护人的职前培训项目。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并与家长建立关系。然而，培训的很大一部分涉及建立知识和塑造对促进照料至关重要的态度的教学活动。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的家长的补课。这将允许家长和机构完成整个培训，而不必为补课投入额外的资源，也不必重新开始或推迟培训。这也将给家庭中其他居家照顾者观看课程的机会。在线模块也可以用作课堂培训的附加教学工具。在拟议的方案中，12个拟议的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儿童虐待和忽视的基础模块。可行性研究表明，交互式多媒体教学实际上比课堂教学更有效地传递知识；它也获得了比课堂培训更高的用户满意度评级；在增加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，我们将开发和评估剩下的11个培训模块。此外，还将为不能使用高速网络的家长制作光盘。公共卫生相关性：参与该项目的研究对象将获得重要信息，这些信息将使他们做好准备，成为寄养或收养儿童的有效资源父母。因此，他们养育子女的质量和技能可以得到提高，他们所照顾的孩子的福祉也可以得到改善。

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.