Web-Based Marriage Education for Foster, Kinship, and Adoptive Couples

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目的目的是开发和评估一个专门的在线版本的婚姻教育计划资源（即，养父母、姻亲和养父母。该计划被称为预防和关系增强计划（PREP），是一个经过充分研究，非常有效，广泛使用的课程，已经适应了某些特定人群的使用，尽管不是专门针对资源夫妇。寄养、亲属关系和收养夫妇面临着非同寻常的挑战，这些挑战可能会对他们的婚姻产生巨大影响。标准的家庭环境和干预动力并不适用于这些夫妇。然而，针对这些父母的特殊需要和情况的婚姻教育可以为他们提供急需的社会沟通技能，以避免他们婚姻关系中的消极互动模式，并将他们的期望引导到一个健康的框架中。在第一阶段，我们成功地开发和测试了PREP计划的前两个模块。研究结果为在线版本在这一人群中的有效性提供了强有力的支持。在第二阶段，我们将生产另外13个模块，以适应这一人群，以完成该计划。我们将评估100寄养，收养和亲属关系夫妇的知识，沟通和冲突管理技能，健康婚姻的各种指标，并测试父母和孩子的调整措施的全国样本的完整，完成的程序。相应地，受试者的招募以及培训干预措施的实施和测试都将在网上进行。公共卫生相关性：参加这个项目的主题将获得重要的信息和技能，以帮助他们理解和管理婚姻生活的独特挑战，为寄养，收养和亲属夫妇。因此，婚姻质量，养育，家庭生活，资源儿童的适应和安置的稳定性可以提高。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this project is to develop and evaluate a specialized online version of a marital education program for resource (i.e., foster, kinship, and adoptive) parents. The program, called Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP), is a well-researched, highly effective, and widely used curriculum that has been adapted already for use with certain select populations, though not specifically with resource couples. Foster, kinship, and adoptive couples face extraordinary challenges that can, and do, have a large impact on their marriages. Standard family contexts and dynamics for intervention do not generalize to these couples. However, marital education tailored to the special needs and circumstances of these parents could provide them with much needed social-communication skills to avoid negative interaction patterns in their marital relationship and to steer their expectations into a healthy framework. In Phase I we successfully developed and tested the first two modules from the PREP program. Findings provided strong support for the efficacy of the online version with this population. In Phase II we will produce another 13 modules adapted to this population to complete the program. We will evaluate the full, finished program with a national sample of 100 foster, adoptive, and kinship couples on measures of knowledge, communication and conflict management skills, a variety of indicators of a healthy marriage, and a test of parent and child adjustment. Fittingly, the recruitment of subjects, as well as the implementation and testing of the training intervention, will all be done online. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Subjects participating in this project will gain important information and skills to help them understand and manage the unique challenges of married life for foster, adoptive, and kinship couples. As a result, the quality of the marriage, parenting, family life, the resource child's adjustment, and the stability of the placement could improve.