Davranış sorunlarını hedef alan etkin bir müdahale programının uyarlanması ve pilot çalışması

This study presents the pilot implementation of a parenting training program aiming toprevent or halt the development of externalizing behaviors in early childhood. The parentingtraining program, The Incredible Years Program, was translated and adapted from English foruse with Turkish families. The training program was evaluated with 44 intervention and 78control parents of children at K-2 grades of two schools in Istanbul. The training included 15biweekly sessions. In these sessions, the participants viewed videotaped examples of parentchildinteractions and discussed the child-rearing concepts. The evaluation findings indicatedthat (i) the training effects were large for reducing externalizing behaviors and moderate forincreasing prosocial behaviors; (ii) no significant intervention effects could be detected onany self-reported parenting behaviors; (iii) the level of attendance to program wassignificantly associated with the effectiveness of the program; (iv) the parents of children withfewer prosocial behaviors were less satisfied with the training program than other parents;and, (v) higher program satisfaction was associated with a greater increase in children?sprosocial behaviors. The major contributions of the present study were to prepare thecurriculum for an empirically validated parenting training program addressing externalizingbehaviors of young children and to lay groundwork for a comprehensive evaluation of theprogram as a preventive intervention for Turkish parents.Keywords: externalizing behaviors, intervention programs, parent training, evaluation study