Follow-up Study Shows FosterParentCollege.com® Advanced Parenting Workshop Effective
October 13, 2010
Eugene, OR — Results of the follow-up survey of participants in the Anger Advanced Parenting Workshop study show that a majority of parents continue to use what they learned in the workshop and feel the lessons helped them parent more effectively. The study results have been reported to the funder, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Adoptive parents who volunteered for the study took a pretest, then participated in the workshop, then took a posttest and completed a workshop evaluation.
Initially, statistical analysis provided clear and positive indicators of the effectiveness of the Anger Workshop. Participants in the treatment group increased in knowledge about anger in adopted children, as well as parenting confidence in managing their child's anger, significantly more than participants in the control group.
Three months later, they completed a follow-up survey to gauge how much of what they had learned continued to affect their parenting style.
The results of the three month follow-up show:
87% built a plan to deal with their adopted child's anger problem
87% implemented the plan
87% made adjustments to improve the plan after they developed it
60.9% used their team or a team member to improve the plan
78.3% take their adopted child's anger outbursts less personally than they did before completing the workshop
82.6% think about what they learned in the class when their child has an anger outburst
81.5% feel more positive about the course since they completed it
Workshops begin the first Tuesday of each month and last three weeks. Completion yields six hours of training credit and a certificate of completion. For more information or to register visit
fosterparentcollege.com or call 800-777-6636.
FPC is rated by the California Evidence-based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare, endorsed by the Foster Family-based Treatment Association and the Canadian Foster Family Association, and approved by CASA and the National Adoption Center.