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SynthesisJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2014

Practitioner review: Engaging fathers--recommendations for a game change in parenting interventions based on a systematic review of the global evidence.

Catherine Panter-Brick, Adrienne Burgess, Mark Eggerman, Fiona McAllister, Kyle Pruett, James F Leckman

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Synthesis in Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 250 papers, 19 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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  15. Fatherhood Matters: An Integrative Review of Fatherhood Intervention Research.The Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses · 2020
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  18. The Effectiveness of Parent Training Programs for Child Maltreatment and Their Components: A Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Catherine Panter-BrickDepartment of Anthropology & Jackson Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Adrienne Burgess
Mark Eggerman
Fiona McAllister
Kyle Pruett
James F Leckman

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDespite robust evidence of fathers' impact on children and mothers, engaging with fathers is one of the least well-explored and articulated aspects of parenting interventions. It is therefore critical to evaluate implicit and explicit biases manifested in current approaches to research, intervention, and policy.

methodsWe conducted a systematic database and a thematic hand search of the global literature on parenting interventions. Studies were selected from Medline, Psychinfo, SSCI, and Cochrane databases, and from gray literature on parenting programs, using multiple search terms for parent, father, intervention, and evaluation. We tabulated single programs and undertook systematic quality coding to review the evidence base in terms of the scope and nature of data reporting.

resultsAfter screening 786 nonduplicate records, we identified 199 publications that presented evidence on father participation and impact in parenting interventions. With some notable exceptions, few interventions disaggregate 'father' or 'couple' effects in their evaluation, being mostly driven by a focus on the mother-child dyad. We identified seven key barriers to engaging fathers in parenting programs, pertaining to cultural, institutional, professional, operational, content, resource, and policy considerations in their design and delivery.

conclusionsBarriers to engaging men as parents work against father inclusion as well as father retention, and undervalue coparenting as contrasted with mothering. Robust evaluations of father participation and father impact on child or family outcomes are stymied by the ways in which parenting interventions are currently designed, delivered, and evaluated. Three key priorities are to engage fathers and coparenting couples successfully, to disaggregate process and impact data by fathers, mothers, and coparents, and to pay greater attention to issues of reach, sustainability, cost, equity, and scale-up. Clarity of purpose with respect to gender-differentiated and coparenting issues in the design, delivery, and evaluation of parenting programs will constitute a game change in this field.

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FathersParentingPsychotherapyHumansResearch Designchild developmentcoparentfamilyfather involvementpreventionResearch designviolence

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PMID24980187
PMCPMC4277854

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