Fathering through Change: Online Parent Training for Divorced Fathers

描述(由申请人提供)：许多父亲没有准备好应对离婚带来的压力，这些压力会破坏他们有效的育儿技能。离婚率居高不下，父亲承担着比过去更多的监护责任，但离婚的父亲仍然是 服务严重不足的人群，甚至几乎没有循证计划。迫切需要更具体的工作，将有效的方案和技术转化为离异父亲和服务不足的讲西班牙语的离异父亲。离异父亲的高质量参与与孩子从婴儿期到青春期的积极认知、社交和情感结果有关。对于离婚父亲和不同背景的父亲，缺乏有效的方案仍然是一个问题。减少压力和促进更好地为人父的计划至关重要，因为高质量的参与与适应更好的孩子、更适应的母亲以及随着时间的推移减少共同父母冲突有关。在循证项目的基础上，这个项目的中心目标是为离婚父亲创建一个在线互动资源，名为改变中的父亲(FTC)，这是一个媒体密集型技能培养计划，将促进父亲与孩子的高质量参与。课程内容将侧重于为人父母的技能、解决问题和沟通的技能、情绪调节和减少冲突的策略。通过改变来解决社区和法院系统中的一个必要的缺口。此外，一个确定的需求和重要的创新将是开发FTC计划的英语和西班牙语版本。第一阶段的具体目标是开发前三个程序模块，这是整个程序的基本组成部分，包括离婚背景下的父亲、有效的限制设置和情绪调节方面的组件。我们将生产第一阶段FTC组件的英语和专业配音的西班牙语版本。实施的可行性(即可接受性、参与度、忠诚度)和疗效的可行性将由50名离异父亲使用基准结果的事后评估进行评估。在第二阶段，我们将用英语和西班牙语完成FTC的其余三个模块，并将进行一项大规模的随机对照试验，将完整的FTC方案与等待名单对照组进行比较。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Many fathers are unprepared for the stressors accompanying divorce that disrupt their effective parenting skills. Divorce rates remain high and fathers are gaining more custodial responsibilities than in the past, yet divorced fathers remain a vastly underserved population for which very few evidence-based programs even exist. There is great need for more specified work on translating effective programs and technologies for divorced fathers and for underserved Spanish speaking divorced fathers. Quality involvement of divorced fathers is associated with positive cognitive, social, and emotional outcomes for children from infancy to adolescence. Lack of effective programs for divorced fathers and for fathers of diverse backgrounds continues to be a problem. Programs to reduce stress and promote better fathering are vitally important because quality involvement is associated with better-adjusted children, better-adjusted mothers, and reduced co-parental conflict over time. Predicated on evidence-based programs, the central goal of this project is to create an online interactive resource for divorced fathers called Fathering through Change (FTC), a media-intensive skill- building program that will promote quality involvement of fathers with their children. Program content will focus on parenting skills, problem solving and communication skills, emotion regulation, and conflict reduction strategies. Fathering through Change will address a needed gap in community and court systems. Additionally, an identified need and important innovation will be the development of both English and Spanish language versions of the FTC program. Phase I specific aims are to develop the first three program modules, the foundational building blocks for the full program, including components on fathering in the context of divorce, effective limit setting, and regulating emotions. We will produce English and professionally dubbed Spanish versions of Phase I FTC components. Both feasibility of implementation (i.e., acceptability, engagement, fidelity) and feasibility of efficacy will be evaluated with 50 divorced fathers using pre-post assessment of benchmark outcomes. In Phase II we will complete the remaining three modules of FTC in English and Spanish, and will conduct a large-scale randomized control trial comparing of the complete FTC program to a wait-list control group.