J M Lachman

Dados Biográficos

ID1737646
NOMEJ M Lachman
PRENOMESJ M
SOBRENOMELachman
ASSINATURALACHMAN J M
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Oxford
ORCID0000-0001-9475-9218
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS48
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES26
TOTAL COMO AUTOR48
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2013
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H4

  • Are parenting programmes effective at scale? Associations with violence against adolescent girls, parenting and mental health in real-world delivery across eight African countries

    Open AccessLucie D Cluver, Christopher L Ward et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    INTRODUCTION: Evidence-based parenting programmes are widely used to prevent violence against children and improve parenting and mental health. Despite hundreds of randomised trials, little is known about their outcomes when delivered at scale within routine delivery. This study assesses the WHO-endorsed and UNICEF-endorsed Parenting for Lifelong Health programme for caregivers and adolescents, delivered through non-governmental organisation and …

  • Measuring Children’s Exposure to Interparental Hostility

    Open AccessHugh Murphy, Antonio Piolanti et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Violence2026

  • Taking Parenting Programs to Scale

    Open AccessCarly Katzef, Adriana Băban et al.ARTICLEFamilies in Society The Journal…2026

    Over one billion children globally are exposed to violence each year and 55 million European children experience violence in their lifetime. Parenting interventions are a key strategy to reduce child maltreatment and promote child outcomes. Parenting for Lifelong Health for Young Children (PLH-YC) is an in-person parenting program, tested for use in Romania, Moldova, and North Macedonia. Implementation experiences across these settings highlighte…

  • Preliminary Outcomes of a Hybrid-Digital Parenting Intervention in Routine Services in Malaysia

    Open AccessVanisa Senesathith, J M Lachman et al.ARTICLEResearch on Social Work Practice2026

    Purpose: This paper examined pre-post changes in child maltreatment and associated outcomes among caregivers of children ages 2–6 years who participated in a hybrid-digital parenting intervention delivered by civil society organizations (CSOs) in Malaysia. Methods: Data were collected by five CSOs between January and April 2024 in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. The intervention included a parenting support chatbot, WhatsApp groups, and two in-person …

  • A Teacher-Facilitated Digital Parenting Program to Improve Positive Parenting Practices in Chinese Kindergartens

    Open AccessHuiping Zhang, Xuefei Wang et al.ARTICLEResearch on Social Work Practice2026Referências: 3

    Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of a teacher-facilitated digital parenting program—the Chinese version of Parenting for Lifelong Health for Young Children (PLH-YC)—on enhancing parents’ positive parenting and reducing harsh discipline, and to examine factors influencing its effectiveness. Method: Eighty-three classes in nine kindergartens were assigned to the digital PLH-YC intervention (43 classes, 1,034 parents) or the wait-list control …

  • Parenting on the border

    Open AccessAmanda Sims, Eve S Puffer et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2025

    There is currently a lack of evidence-based interventions with a dual focus on improving parenting and caregiver mental health in conflict and humanitarian settings. To address this gap, we co-designed a trauma-informed, edutainment-enhanced intervention to improve both parenting and mental health outcomes among migrant and displaced caregivers on the Thailand-Myanmar border. This paper outlines the study protocol for a pragmatic, community-based…

  • Delivering the Parenting for Lifelong Health Programme with Parents of Young Children in Wales

    Open AccessJudy Hutchings, Sarah Jones et al.ARTICLEChildren2025

    These preliminary results justify work to develop a rigorous evaluation to establish whether PLH-YC could have a place among parenting-support programmes in the UK

  • Acceptability and cultural appropriateness of a parenting programme to reduce violence against adolescents in Tanzania delivered at scale

    Open AccessJoyce Wamoyi, Mackenzie Martin et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2025

    Although parenting programmes may be effective at reducing violence against children (VAC), there is a limited understanding on how acceptable and appropriate such programmes are among parents/caregivers ('caregivers') when delivered at scale. This paper explores the acceptability and cultural appropriateness of a parenting programme for caregivers and their adolescent girls, Parenting for Lifelong Health for Teens (PLH-Teens), which was delivere…

  • Using a Digital Parenting Intervention to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence and Promote Gender Equitable Behaviors in South Africa and Jamaica

    Open AccessMoa Schafer, J M Lachman et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2025

    This qualitative study explores caregivers' experiences of using a preprogramed, chatbot parenting intervention with integrated intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention content. The intervention aims to address the challenge of scale-up that in-person parenting programs often face while seeking to reduce both IPV and violence against children simultaneously. Conducted in South Africa and Jamaica, individual interviews and focus group discussion…

  • Cultural Adaptation of Parenting Interventions

    Open AccessAmalee McCoy, J M Lachman et al.ARTICLEResearch on Social Work Practice2025Referências: 5

    Purpose: This formative evaluation examined the cultural and contextual relevance of the Parenting for Lifelong Health for Young Children program's content and delivery for the rural Thai context and its scalability within the public health system. Method: Twenty-six professionals and academics participated in interviews and focus groups to inform adaptation and testing. Data were analyzed thematically. Results: Although the intervention was gene…

  • Digital Parenting Program for Migrant Chinese Families

    Open AccessZiyu Wang, Xuefei Wang et al.ARTICLEResearch on Social Work Practice2025Citada por: 1Referências: 5

    Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a self-directed online program, Parenting for Lifelong Health for Young Children (PLH-YC), in enhancing positive parenting practices among migrant families in China. Methods: A quasi-experimental design was employed, with 67 parents of children aged 2–9 years assigned to either an intervention group ( n = 24) or a control group ( n = 43). Both qualitative and quantitative data were collec…

  • A stakeholder perspective on the necessary conditions for successfully implementing parenting interventions in Botswana

    Open AccessHlengiwe Sacolo-Gwebu, Hlengiwe Gwebu et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Background: Encouraging positive parenting practices through evidence-based interventions is vital for the achievement of SDG target 16.2, which aims to eradicate all forms of violence against children while promoting their safety and mental wellbeing. As low- and middle- income countries increasingly adopt parenting programs, policymakers and implementers face the challenge of efficiently transporting, adapting, and implementing them across mult…

  • Reducing family and school-based violence at scale

    Open AccessJ M Lachman, Joyce Wamoyi et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: Parenting programmes, including those delivered in the Global South, are effective strategies to reduce violence against children (VAC). However, there is limited evidence of their impact when implemented at scale within routine delivery systems. This study aimed to address this gap by evaluating the real-world delivery of Parenting for Lifelong Health for Teens in Tanzania. METHODS: Participating parents/caregivers and their adolesce…

  • Feasibility and acceptability of a digital parent group chat intervention to prevent child and adolescent maltreatment in the Philippines

    Open AccessRosanne M Jocson, Liane Peña Alampay et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Psychology2024

    This study examined the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes of MaPaChat, a parent support intervention delivered using Viber group chat to caregivers in the Philippines during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Forty caregivers of children aged 4–17 from predominantly low‐income households participated in a culturally adapted version of the Parenting for Lifelong Health ParentChat programme. Feasibility was assessed by enrolment, attendance,…

  • How are parental mental health and parenting practices associated with externalizing behaviors among young children with autism in China? A cross‐sectional study and indirect effect analysis

    Open AccessZuyi Fang, J M Lachman et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2024

    Children with autism are more likely to exhibit externalizing behaviors than children without autism. A cross‐sectional study was undertaken to investigate how parental mental health status and parenting practices contributed to the variance in externalizing behaviors among families of young children with autism in Chinese mainland, and whether parenting behaviors had any indirect effects on the relationship between parental mental health symptom…

  • Linking child adjustment difficulties with mother's maladaptive parental behavior

    Open AccessIngrid Dănilă, Róbert Balázsi et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2024

    Child abuse is prevalent worldwide, with most of the burden in developing countries. To reduce and prevent child abuse occurrence, many efforts are directed toward reducing maladaptive parental behaviors (MPBs), a predictor of parents' risk of engaging in child abusive behaviors. MPBs have been associated with child (e.g., behavioral difficulties) and parent characteristics (e.g., parenting stress and parental cognitions), although little researc…

  • The effectiveness of Hope Groups, a mental health, parenting support, and violence prevention program for families affected by the war in Ukraine

    Open AccessSusan D Hillis, Sydney Tucker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Migration and Health2024

    This study demonstrates preliminary evidence, using a brief survey and pre-post design as is appropriate for acute and early protracted emergency settings, of the feasibility and effectiveness of Hope Groups for war-affected Ukrainian caregivers, on improved mental health, positive parenting, and reduced violence against children

  • Innovate! Accelerate! Evaluate! Harnessing the RE-AIM framework to examine the global dissemination of parenting resources during Covid-19 to more than 210 million people

    Open AccessJ M Lachman, Nisso Nurova et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    This study highlights the importance of a) establishing an international collaboration to rapidly adapt and disseminate evidence-based content into easily accessible resources that are relevant to the needs of parents; b) creating open-source and agile delivery models that are responsive to local contexts and receptive to further adaptation; and c) using the best methods available to evaluate a rapidly deployed global emergency response in real-t…

  • A Feasibility Study of Parenting for Lifelong Health for Adolescents in China

    Open AccessShiqin Liu, Xinger Xia et al.ARTICLEResearch on Social Work Practice2024Referências: 7

    Purpose: This study examined the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of Parenting for Lifelong Health for Parents and Adolescents program in reducing the risk of child maltreatment in Chinese families with adolescents. Methods: A pre-post single-arm pilot trial was conducted in July and August, 2023, and involved 16 parents and 13 teenagers with a mixed-methods design to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. Result…

  • Evaluation of a brief online parenting training for community service providers in the Philippines

    Open AccessDominiq Ruth G Reyes, Rosanne M Jocson et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2024Referências: 33

  • Screen use

    Open AccessFranziska Waller, Katharina Prandstetter et al.ARTICLEFamily Relations2023

  • Measuring dysfunctional parenting

    Open AccessKatharina Prandstetter, Franziska Waller et al.ARTICLEFamily Relations2023

  • “Before I was like a Tarzan. But now, I take a pause”

    Open AccessJ M Lachman, Rumaya Juhari et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    This feasibility study is one of the few studies in Southeast Asia that examined the feasibility and initial program impact of a parenting program delivered by government staff to families with children across the developmental spectrum from birth to 17 years. Promising results suggest that the program may reduce child maltreatment across a range of child ages. Findings also indicate areas for program improvement prior to further delivery and tes…

  • Optimising engagement in a digital parenting intervention to prevent violence against adolescents in Tanzania

    Open AccessRoselinde Janowski, Ohad Green et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Pan African Clinical Trial Registry, PACTR202210657553944. Registered 11 October 2022, https://pactr.samrc.ac.za/TrialDisplay.aspx?TrialID=24051

  • Integrating intimate partner violence prevention content into a digital parenting chatbot intervention during Covid-19

    Open AccessMoa Schafer, J M Lachman et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    This article provides a unique contribution as the first to integrate IPV prevention content into a remotely delivered, digital parenting intervention for low-resource settings. The findings from this research and formative evaluation shed light on the promising potential of chatbots as scalable and accessible forms of violence prevention, targeting multiple types of family violence