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Dialogues with parents: a parental support and empowerment program based on the Touchpoints Model
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“Dialogues with Parents-welcoming, listening, and empowering” aimed to
understand the impact of an innovative approach supporting parents with
identified social/emotional vulnerabilities. Program goals included the promotion
of positive parenting, the expansion of parents’ knowledge and skills, and the
enhancement of parent–child interactions. Based on the Brazelton Touchpoints
Developmental-Relational Frameworks, the program applied strength-based
assumptions and relationship-based practices to underpin empathic and
collaborative relationships with families, seeking to strengthen their confidence
in parenting. Two modalities were oered with a modular structure from
prenatal–newborn to 6 years. Both included 10 modules, one in which the same
group of parents carried out the complete sequence of sessions (Continuous
Group) and a second in which parents selected one Touchpoint according to
their needs and “drop in” to the session(s) of their choice (Touchpoints 1 by 1
Group). Data were gathered through satisfaction questionnaires at the end of each
encounter. A focus group was also held with parents from the Continuous Group.
The dierence between applications (248) and total participation (99) indicates
that parent’s interest in participating is high but only a third managed to join the
groups. Nevertheless, the results were very positive, highlighting the quality of
the Touchpoints approach and program implementation, namely its impact on
improving parents’ understanding of children’s development and of their own role
in parenting. Parents particularly valued the opportunity to actively participate in
the encounters and, in the Continuous Group, the usefulness of the encounters
for themselves as a person and as parents.
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Parents program Touchpoints model Children’s development Active parent participation Positive parenting Enriched parent-child interactions
Citation
Ana Teresa Brito, Maria Raul Xavier, Nair Azevedo, Filipa Fareleira, Joana Espirito Santo, Lina Teixeira, Joana Tinoco, & Jayne Singer. (2023). Dialogues with parents: a parental support and empowerment program based on the Touchpoints Model. Frontiers in Education, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1251130
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Frontiers Media SA