Longitudinal Follow-up of Brief Parenting Interventions to Reduce Risk of Child Physical Maltreatment

Triple P-Level 2 (TPL2) consists of a brief, 30 minute, one-on-one consultation with a parenting professional followed by a phone call from that professional roughly 2 weeks later. TPL2 will be delivered on an individual level and consist of a brief, 20 to 40 minute, one-on-one parenting consultation. Parents will receive a positive parenting booklet. They also will be offered parenting tip sheets that are designed to provide basic information on the prevention and management of common behavioral, emotional and developmental problems. All materials are: 1) written in simple English; 2) understandable at a sixth grade reading level; 3) gender-sensitive; and 4) avoid technical and colloquial expression that may pose barriers from non-English speaking backgrounds. Participants will receive a follow-up phone call to check on the family's progress and offer any additional needed advice.

"Play Nicely is a brief, multimedia, computer-based educational program. The online program uses narrated modules to enhance parenting skills and promote effective parental responses to normal aggressive behavior in young children. The parent educational module presents a hypothetical situation of one child harming another. As the module progresses the viewer is given 20 different discipline options from which to choose. Participants are encouraged to click on all the options they wish to learn more about. The different options provide ways to respond to the situation and explain that there are discipline choices that are considered Great options, Good options after others have been tried, or There are better options. The length of the program is dependent on how many of the 20 discipline options the participant chooses to learn about, but generally it can be finished in 20-40 minutes."

"Our usual care control group participants receive a resource and referral list for local social services"