Young Parenthood Program
Supporting Positive Paternal Engagement Through Coparenting Counseling
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Objectives. Because of their youth, adolescent parents often lack the interpersonal skills necessary to manage the relationship challenges involved in parenting, leaving them and their children vulnerable to the health risks associated with relational stress and conflict. The primary goal of this study was to test the efficacy of the Young Parenthood Program (YPP), a 10-week counseling program administered during pregnancy and designed to facilitate interpersonal skill development and positive parenting among adolescent parents. Methods. Participants included 105 pregnant adolescents and their partners randomly assigned to YPP or treatment as usual. Assessments measured coparenting skills and parental functioning during the second trimester, 12 weeks after birth, and 18 months after birth. Results. Results indicated that fathers completing YPP demonstrated more positive parenting than did fathers in the control group. Moreover, the positive outcomes in paternal functioning were mediated through changes in the mother’s interpersonal skill development. Conclusions. Results supported the efficacy of this couples-focused, coparenting support program, particularly for facilitating positive paternal engagement. These findings underscored the relevance of including fathers in the delivery of maternal-child public health services
Coparenting · Developmental psychology · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Medicine · Psychology
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Personal Relationships During Adolescence (Advances in Adolescent Development)
Introduction to Statistical Mediation Analysis
Distribution of the product confidence limits for the indirect effect
Establishing family foundations
Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing
Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis
Principles and practice in reporting structural equation analyses.
The Impact of Paternal Involvement on Feto-Infant Morbidity Among Whites, Blacks and Hispanics
Psychosocial Factors and Preterm Birth Among African American and White Women in Central North Carolina
The Mental Health of Married, Cohabiting, and Non–Coresident Parents With Infants
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Coparenting and nonresident fathers’ involvement with young children after a nonmarital birth
Strengthening Unmarried Families
Marriage and health
Assessing the Quality of Personal Relationships
Promoting Fathers' Engagement With Children
Partnership Instability and Child Well-Being
| Citations per year | 1.31 |
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| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |