Parent education program
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A parent education program is a course that can be followed to correct and improve a person's parenting skills. Such courses may be general, covering the most common issues parents may encounter, or specific, for infants, toddlers, children and teenagers. These courses may also be geared towards parents who are considering having a child, or adopting one, or are pregnant.
Some parent education programs are:
- Parent Effectiveness Training is based on Person-centered psychotherapy
- Kess-erziehen (german) adopts elements from Parent Effectiveness Training.
- Starke Eltern - Starke Kinder (german) is based on Humanistic psychology
- Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) is based on Individual psychology
- Triple P is based on Behaviorism.