from Part V - Parent Education, Intervention and Policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2022
The field of mental health is experiencing a trend toward the implementation of early intervention using empirically validated parent-training programs. These programs serve to promote the social-emotional development, communication skills, and school readiness of children. Unfortunately, access to services to improve parenting behaviors is severely limited for many families, especially low-income families who live in rural areas. Through the use of recent advances in multimedia technology and the ubiquity of mobile/computer networking via the Internet, there now exists an opportunity to provide interventions to families distally. As well, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced people to use technology in order maintain safety. In response, remote-access interactive parenting interventions are emerging. Interactive Internet/mobile Computer Mediated Interventions (IICMI) in the home overcome common obstacles for parent participation, such as lack of transportation, harsh weather, long distances or schedule conflicts and have the capacity to provide menus of choices efficiently, tailor information to subject characteristics and interests, manage interactive programming, and provide support to professionals and peers. Yet, the digital divide mirrors health disparities and the process of getting accurate, best-practice information is harder rather than easier. This chapters seeks to address the issues associated with remote delivery of parent-training programs.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.