Systematic Training for Effective Parenting
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Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) is a parent education program
published as a series of books.
STEP was developed and published by the psychologists Don Dinkmeyer Sr., Gary D. McKay and Don Dinkmeyer Jr. The publication was supplemented by an extensive concept for training and proliferation. STEP has reached more than 4 million parents and has been translated into: Spanish, French, German, Japanese and is presently working on Korean and Chinese adoptions.
STEP is based on Alfred Adler
's individual psychology
and the work of the psychologists Rudolf Dreikurs
and Thomas Gordon
.
An evaluation of the program found that parents who participated in STEP had more positive perceptions of their children and were less likely to abuse them.
Parent education program
A parent education program is a course that can be followed to correct and improve a person's parenting skills. Such courses may be general, covering the most common issues parents may encounter, or specific, for infants, toddlers, children and teenagers...
published as a series of books.
STEP was developed and published by the psychologists Don Dinkmeyer Sr., Gary D. McKay and Don Dinkmeyer Jr. The publication was supplemented by an extensive concept for training and proliferation. STEP has reached more than 4 million parents and has been translated into: Spanish, French, German, Japanese and is presently working on Korean and Chinese adoptions.
STEP is based on Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. In collaboration with Sigmund Freud and a small group of Freud's colleagues, Adler was among the co-founders of the psychoanalytic movement as a core member of the Vienna...
's individual psychology
Individual psychology
Individual psychology is a term used specifically to refer to the psychological method or science founded by the Viennese psychiatrist Alfred Adler...
and the work of the psychologists Rudolf Dreikurs
Rudolf Dreikurs
Rudolf Dreikurs was an American psychiatrist and educator who developed psychologist Alfred Adler's system of individual psychology into a pragmatic method for understanding the purposes of reprehensible behaviour in children and for stimulating cooperative behaviour without punishment or...
and Thomas Gordon
Thomas Gordon (psychologist)
Dr. Thomas Gordon was an American clinical psychologist, colleague of Carl Rogers. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in teaching communication skills and conflict resolution methods to parents, teachers, leaders, women, youth and salespeople...
.
An evaluation of the program found that parents who participated in STEP had more positive perceptions of their children and were less likely to abuse them.
External links
- The Parent's Handbook: Systematic Training for Effective Parenting., ISBN 0-88671-298-X