HEAD START UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS: DUAL GENERATION APPROACHES

该项目将测试综合双代干预方法Power Path的近端和远端影响。将整合和调整两种以证据为基础并广泛使用的预防性干预措施，以向学前教育家庭提供干预服务。首先，基于应对能力的权力路径父母干预计划(Lochman&Wells，2001)将解决父母的心理健康需求，以增加就业和经济保障，并提高父母建立有效社交-情感技能的能力。第二，将在课堂上实施促进另类思维策略(路径)学前课程(Domitrovich等人，1999年)，以提高儿童的社会情绪能力和自我调节能力，从而获得长期的社会、行为和学术收益。这项研究将确定新的干预媒介和调节因子，对于阻断慢性社会压力的代际传递至关重要。它还将确定对家庭的最佳干预措施，特别是在自我调节技能仍有可塑性的学龄前阶段，而儿童对压力的主要环境和生理反应可能会缓和干预效果。总而言之，通过Power Path双代干预解决Head Start父母长期压力的来源，预计将使父母做好准备，更好地培养子女的自我调节技能，并更好地培养子女的上学准备，从而改善整体家庭福祉。

This project will test the proximal and distal effects of an integrated dual-generation intervention approach, Power PATH. Two evidence-based and widely-utilized preventive interventions will be integrated and adapted to provide intervention services to Head Start families. First, the Power PATH Parent Intervention program, based on Coping Power (Lochman & Wells, 2001), will address parental mental health needs to increase employment and financial security, and to improve parents' ability to model effective social-emotional skills. Second, the Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) Preschool curriculum (Domitrovich et al., 1999) will be implemented in classrooms to increase children's social-emotional competence and self-regulatory skills, leading to long-term social, behavioral and academic gains. This study will identify novel intervention mediators and moderators, essential for interrupting the intergenerational transmission of chronic social stress. It will also identify the best interventions for families, particularly during preschool when self-regulation skills are still malleable, and children's primary environments and physiological responses to stress are likely to moderate intervention effects. In summary, addressing sources of Head Start parents' chronic stress through the Power PATH dual generation intervention is expected to prepare parents to better scaffold their children's self-regulation skills and to better foster their children's school readiness, improving overall family well-being.