Is it permissible to condense the Basic parent program down to 10 weeks? Is it possible to reduce the child Dinosaur group to the same 10-week period of time?
It is not possible to reduce the core baseline dosage of intervention without compromising the fidelity of the program delivery and its effectiveness. This would be akin to reducing your doctor’s prescription of ampicillin for your ear infection to half the dose. It takes 14-16 weeks to complete the Preschool BASIC prevention parent program, and even longer if one is working with high-risk families, child welfare referred families or those parents with diagnosed children. The delivery of the program in 10 weeks was evaluated in earlier studies during the 80’s and it was found that the content of the program could not be completed, nor was there time for parent practices, a key to learning new ways of interacting. Parents have consistently evaluated the program as not being long enough. What’s more, when using a 10-week model of the program there is a danger of concluding with the Time Out section and having insufficient time to discuss other discipline approaches and the integration of
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