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Nurturing Parenting Programs
Introduction
The Nurturing Parenting Programs (NPP) provide evidence-based interventions that focus on building the competency of parents as nurturers. These programs are designed to be family-centered and prevent the development and continuation of abusive or neglectful child-rearing practices. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) provided the necessary support for the 2-year-long research and program development effort for NPP to help diminish the growing problem of child abuse and neglect, its associated childhood deaths, and the high delinquency and incarceration rates connected with youth having been abused and/or neglected (Bavolek 2000). Bavolek, Kline, and McLaughlin conducted this research in 1979, which compared the parenting beliefs of teens from abusive backgrounds with teens from nonabusive backgrounds (Bavolek and Hodnett 2011). Findings from this research yielded significant differences in parenting beliefs between...
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Horwath, C., Gifford, V., Yatsushiro, K. (2018). Nurturing Parenting Enrichment Program. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_369-1
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