Format
Poster Presentation
Location
Scarbrough 4
Strand #1
Social & Emotional Skills
Strand #2
Family & Community
Relevance
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL SKILLS: This poster session focuses on fostering social and emotional skills in young teens both directly and through parent skills education. V. FAMILY AND COMMUNITY: The presentation demonstrates how parenting skills can be used with parents and teens together and/or separately.
Brief Program Description
This poster session will focus on research demonstrating how a program combining parent education and teen life skills training can make a significant difference in preparing middle school teens to face the challenges of drugs, sexuality, and violence they will likely encounter as they continue to mature.
Summary
The effectiveness of parenting education and teen social skills development can be enhanced by involving both groups separately and together. This poster session will present research findings demonstrating how a program called Active Parenting of Teens: Families in Action involves both parents and teens in the learning process to achieve evidence supported results. Originally developed through a grant from SAMHSA by the AuSable Valley Mental health Center in Tawas City, MI, the program has been recently revised and updated.
Evidence
The session will present results from two published studies: Implementation and impact of a family-based substance abuse prevention program in rural communities. Abbey, A., Pilgrim, C., Hendrickson, P., Lorenz, S. The Journal of Primary Prevention, Vol. 18, No. 3, 1998. Evaluation of a family-based substance abuse prevention program targeted for the middle school years. Abbey, A., Pilgrim, C., Hendrickson P., and Buresh, S. Journal of Drug Education, Vol. 30, No.2, 2000. The Active Parenting of Teens: Families in Action program is also listed on six lists of evidence-based programs including SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP) and is an OJJDP model Program.
Biographical Sketch
: Dr. Michael Popkin pioneered the field of video-based parent education with the introduction of the Active Parenting Discussion Program in 1983. Since then he has authored and produced over thirty books and video programs, including the best-selling Active Parenting Now, Active Parenting of Teens: Families in Action, and 1,2,3,4 Parents! A frequent keynote speaker and media guest, he has appeared on over 200 television shows including multiple appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Montel Williams, and as a regular parenting expert on CNN. A former child and family therapist, Dr. Popkin received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Georgia State University. He and his wife, Melody, are the parents of two young adults and live in the Atlanta area.
Keyword Descriptors
parent education, life skills, prevention, drugs, sexuality, violence
Presentation Year
2015
Start Date
3-3-2015 10:15 AM
End Date
3-3-2015 11:30 AM
Recommended Citation
Popkin, Michael H., "Parents and Teens Training Together: A Powerful Force for Risk-Prevention" (2015). National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference. 124.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar_savannah/2015/2015/124
Included in
Educational Psychology Commons, Student Counseling and Personnel Services Commons, Teacher Education and Professional Development Commons
Parents and Teens Training Together: A Powerful Force for Risk-Prevention
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This poster session will focus on research demonstrating how a program combining parent education and teen life skills training can make a significant difference in preparing middle school teens to face the challenges of drugs, sexuality, and violence they will likely encounter as they continue to mature.
