Empowering and Educating Parents to Implement a Home Intervention: Effects on Preschool Children's Engagement in Hands-on Constructive Play.

Michelle Boulanger Thompson, Yaoying Xu, Chin-Chih Chen, Kathleen Rudasill

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Parenting and stimulation for child development at home: perspectives from Nurturing Care.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2025
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Michelle Boulanger ThompsonSchool of Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA.

Yaoying XuSchool of Education, Department of Counseling and Special Education, Virginia Commonwealth University, Monroe Park Campus, Richmond, VA 23284, USA.

Chin-Chih ChenSchool of Education, Department of Counseling and Special Education, Virginia Commonwealth University, Monroe Park Campus, Richmond, VA 23284, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9503-8145

Kathleen RudasillSchool of Education, Department of Counseling and Special Education, Virginia Commonwealth University, Monroe Park Campus, Richmond, VA 23284, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9415-8575

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Constructive play is a creative process-oriented activity that promotes children's engaged learning through building and designing with materials. This study investigated a parent-implemented intervention to promote active engagement in constructive play for preschool-aged children at risk for developmental delay. This study utilized a single-subject multiple-baseline across-participants design with four participants. Visual analysis of the data identified a functional relation between the temporal, physical, and social-emotional environmental support provided by the parents and the children's active engagement in constructive play. Parents reported the intervention as meaningful to their lives, indicating strong social validity. These findings highlight the importance of centering and working with parents in their home environment and provide evidence that empowering parents to provide support and minimize barriers facilitates children's active engagement in constructive play.

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constructive playearly childhoodhome settingparent-implemented intervention

Identifiers

PMID38540550

DOI10.3390/bs14030247

PMCPMC10968168

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