Scaling Up Parenting Interventions is Critical for Attaining the Sustainable Development Goals.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev
; 53(5): 941-952, 2022 10.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1216230
ABSTRACT
Of all the potentially modifiable influences affecting children's development and mental health across the life course, none is more important than the quality of parenting and family life. In this position paper, we argue that parenting is fundamentally linked to the development of life skills that children need in order to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We discuss key principles that should inform the development of a global research and implementation agenda related to scaling up evidence-based parenting support programs. Research over the past 50 years has shown that parenting support programs of varied intensity and delivery modality can improve a wide range of developmental, emotional, behavioral and health outcomes for parents and their children. Such findings have been replicated across culturally and socioeconomically diverse samples, albeit primarily in studies from Western countries. We highlight the evidence for the relevance of parenting interventions for attaining the SDGs globally, and identify the barriers to and strategies for achieving their scale-up. The implications of the global COVID-19 pandemic for the delivery of evidence-based parenting support are also discussed.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Parenting
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
Limits:
Child
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S10578-021-01171-0
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