A comparison of group-based and home-based parent training using applied behavior analysis techniques /by Rocio Carbajal.

A university-based Positive Parenting class was designed to provide the local community with Applied Behavior Analysis techniques used for training parents of children with developmental disabilities. The current study investigated the effectiveness of the parental implementation of the skills learned from a positive parenting class in both group- and home-based environments. A multiple baseline with multiple probes across participants design was used in this study. The hypotheses of the current study were that the parents??? scores on the pre-and post-tests (measures of parenting knowledge), the frequency of Praise, and the percentage of correct responses of Planned Ignoring and Prompting Alternative behavior would be higher for those parents receiving in-home parent training via home-visits than those parents receiving group parent training via group meeting classes. It was hypothesized that the children???s percent of skill acquisition would be higher for those children whose parents received in-home parent training than for children whose parents received group parent training. Results from this study found that the group format, one hour of lecture and one hour of role modeling with child while providing feedback was more effective than the same model in the in-home group. Even though the parents were placed in groups inspection of the data was done individually, no inferential statistics were used