Internet Stepparent Training for Parents of Adolescents

描述（申请人提供）：本研究将开发一个互动的多媒体程序，教导父母和伴侣的行为养育技巧，在离婚家庭的青少年。一个基于能力的教学设计将使用视频小插曲，以测试用户的理解适当的育儿策略。根据用户对互动问题的回答，视频评论员将审查潜在的结果和模型行为的影响，称赞有效的行为，并在适当的情况下推荐更好的方法。拟议的方案将提供高质量的研究为基础的育儿指导父母在离婚家庭谁不太可能参加传统的育儿课程，或谁没有这样的资源在当地可用。界面设计将方便没有经验的计算机用户和阅读技能有限的父母使用。第一阶段的原型将设计用于互联网。它将针对继父母关系中的亲生母亲，并将在随机试验中进行评估。在第二阶段，该方案的范围将扩大，有针对性地提供育儿技能，并解决父亲、继母、继父和父母在混合家庭中的观点和作用。第二阶段的产品将开发互联网，光盘，和VHS，并将在一个随机试验进行评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This research will develop an interactive multi-media program to teach behavioral parenting skills to parents and partners in divorced families with adolescents. A competency-based instructional design will use video vignettes to test user comprehension of appropriate parenting strategies. Based upon user responses to interactive questions, video commentators will review potential outcomes and the implications of modeled behaviors, lauding effective behaviors and recommending better approaches if appropriate. The proposed program will deliver high-quality research-based parenting instruction to parents in divorced families who are unlikely to attend traditional parenting classes, or who do not have such resources available locally. The interface design will facilitate use by inexperienced computer users, and by parents with limited reading skills. The Phase I prototype will be designed for use on the Internet. It will be targeted to biological mothers in step-parenting relationships and will be evaluated in a randomized trial. In Phase II, the scope of the program will be broadened with targeted programs providing parenting skills and also addressing the perspectives and roles of fathers, stepmothers, stepfathers, and parents in blended families. The Phase II product will be developed for Internet, CD-ROM, and VHS, and will be evaluated in a randomized trial.