Is Your Child’s Behavior Challenging?
Spring 2021 | Back to Imprints
One of MPSI's faculty members is researching ways to help and looking for volunteers. Dr. Lucy McGoron is completing a randomized clinical trial of the Parenting Young Children Check-up (PYCC). The program teaches parents how to prevent and respond to young children's challenging behavior. Parents access the program through their Smartphones, including watching videos online and receiving text messages.
Parents learn strategies like using Labeled Praise, Following a Daily Routine, using Logical Consequences, and following a Time-out procedure. The goal is to recruit 40 parents to the study. They complete questionnaires to help researchers understand if parents find the program helpful and whether it is changing the children's challenging behavior. The program was designed to be easily accessible, so a main question is how much parents use the program.
Thirty parents from the metro Detroit area have participated so far; Dr. McGoron is looking for another 10 to sign-up. If you are selected to participate, you would answer questions about yourself and your preschool-aged child, then can use the Check-Up as much or as little as you like. You would complete additional questionnaires 1 month and 3 months later. You are compensated for answering the questionnaires.
If you are a parent that is interested in participating in the PYCC, go to www.parentingcheckup.org/participate. Or email PYCC@wayne.edu. Someone will call you to complete the screener over the phone.
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