Parents’ views regarding the implementation of knowledge and skills acquired in parenting skills training
Year: 2020
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Prevention and early-intervention programmes that promote and assist parents in acquiring the skills and knowledge required to parent children effectively, with or without behavioural issues are a crucial to childcare.The Children's Act, Act 38 of 2005, as well as the South African Constitution declare that the needs of a child are important; therefore, when the parents are equipped with adequate knowledge and skills, prevention of a family breakdown could be achieved.This current research study, therefore, involves an exploration of the experiences of parents, who had participated in parental intervention strategies, in the form of positive parenting skills training.In this current study, the researcher aims to explore and describe the experiences of parents, in terms of the effectiveness of the knowledge and skills they acquired during their participation in the prevention and early-intervention programme.Prior research has revealed that parents with children, who present with maladaptive behaviour, are more eager to participate in parenting skills training.The development of the life skills of parents in the African context is beneficial, to build their confidence for the task of child rearing.The theoretical framework used for this current study was Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Framework, which maintains that the structure of the environment influencing the child's development, comprises the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem.The study follows a qualitative research approach, embedded in an explorative and descriptive design, to explore and describe the experiences of parents, who had participated in positive parenting skills training, as well as how they were implementing the knowledge and skills they had acquired through the training.The population for this study were parents of children in two Cape Town townships, in the Western Cape, who have completed the positive parenting skills training.Purposive sampling was used to select participants for the study.Two focus group discussions with 17 parents, as well as individual interviews with 8 parents (not included in the focus groups), were conducted to gather data.The eight steps of Tesch were used to guide the data analysis.Ethical considerations, such as confidentiality, anonymity, voluntary participation, were closely observed.The project used
Author: Ncumisa Mdidimba
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3113371783