Effects of an Intervention for Incarcerated Parents

描述（由申请人提供）：美国大多数州（55%）和联邦（63%）囚犯至少有一个18岁以下的孩子。父母的犯罪，逮捕和监禁至少是适度的预测暴力和严重的儿童犯罪，有证据表明，父母的犯罪行为对儿童反社会行为的影响是由父母的做法介导的。美国监狱实施了各种旨在改善囚犯养育方式的非标准化方案，但关于这些方案对囚犯和儿童的影响的严格科学知识并不存在。 为了开始补救这种知识的缺乏，我们提出了一个随机的预防性干预试验，以测试家长管理培训对儿童的监禁父母的影响。这项试验将在俄勒冈州惩教部（DOC）和俄勒冈州州长的全力合作和支持下进行，干预服务将由DOC支付。被监禁的父母（N = 400; 50%女性; 50%少数民族）将被随机分为父母管理培训条件（PMT; g = 200）或照常服务条件（SU; _n= 200）。PMT将联合收割机现行标准的监狱家长教育课程与最先进的、以实践为基础的家长管理培训内容和方法相结合。此外，作为PMT条件的一部分，护理人员将每周收到邮件和每周电话。参与者（即，将在基线、干预期间、干预后、出狱后和出狱后6个月对囚犯、照料者和小学重点儿童（1至5年级）进行评估。学校和法庭记录以及教师数据将在基线和释放后6个月收集。收集的数据将允许检查是否有一个理论和经验为基础的，小组交付PMT计划监禁的父母积极影响的行为，福祉，和囚犯的关系，他们的孩子，和他们的孩子的照顾者，而囚犯是在监狱内外;以及儿童和照顾者行为、幸福感和关系的任何变化是否由治疗引发的囚犯养育行为的变化介导。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A majority of state (55%) and federal (63%) prisoners in the U.S. have at least one child under the age of 18 years. Parental criminality, arrests, and incarceration are at least modest predictors of violent and serious child delinquency, and there is evidence that the impact of parent criminality on child antisocial behavior is mediated by parenting practices. A variety of non-standardized programs aimed at improving inmate parenting practices have been delivered in U.S. prisons, but rigorous scientific knowledge on the impact of such programs on inmates and children is non-existent. To begin to remedy this lack of knowledge, we propose a randomized preventive intervention trial to test the impact of parent management training on the children of incarcerated parents. This trial will be conducted with the full cooperation and support of the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) and the Oregon Governor, and services for the intervention will be paid for by the DOC. Incarcerated parents (.N = 400; 50% female; 50% minority) will be randomized into a parent management training condition (PMT; g = 200) or a services-as-usual condition (SU; _n= 200). PMT will combine current standard of practice prison parent education curricula with state of the art, empirically-based parent management training content and methods. In addition, caregivers will receive weekly mailings as well as weekly phone calls as part of the PMT condition. Participants (i.e., inmates, caregivers, and a focus child in elementary school [grades 1 through 5]) will be assessed at baseline, during intervention, following intervention, after release from prison, and 6 months after release. School and court records and teacher data will be collected at baseline and 6 months after release. Collected data will allow for an examination of whether a theoretically and empirically based, group-delivered PMT program for incarcerated parents positively impacts the behavior, well-being, and relationships of the inmates, their children, and the caregivers of their children while the inmate is inside and outside of prison; and whether any changes in child and caregiver behavior, well-being, and relationships are mediated by treatment-initiated changes in inmate parenting practices.