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Parent Education: Developments and Discrepancies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

June Allan  and
Cynthia Schultz
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The effects of professional intervention in family life and relationships has been questioned by a number of writers who maintain that this involvement has led to the undermining of parental authority and a lessening of parental competence and confidence. By contrast, others see this involvement as supplying necessary skills to family members.

Amongst the programmes which professionals have implemented are parent education programmes, many of which are conducted in groups and which are valued by both practitioners and writers. As part of the broader debate about the relationships between professionals and the family however, some critics suggest that parent education programmes can have adverse effects on parents' confidence in their parental role and on their self-reliance in deciding how best to raise their children.

A research project is being put into effect in Melbourne to explore these issues.

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Children Australia , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , 1987 , pp. 14 - 16
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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The research reported on in this article is being undertaken by the principal author as work towards a Master of Behavioural Science at LaTrobe University, Melbourne.

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