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This presentation is part of : Community Collaborations Fostering Leadership Development
Evidence-Based Parenting Curriculi to Exact Change with Parents of Children Who Demonstrate Inappropriate Affect
Linda Douville-Watson, Adolescent Psychiatry, Baptist /Wolfson's Children's Hospital, Orange Park, FL, USA
Learning Objective #1: identify and define program skills. The learner will take a pre-test and post-test as part of the evidence-based learning process.
Learning Objective #2: Community,Pediatric, School Nurses and Nurse Educators will generalize their learned knowledge to their own families enabling them to improve their own family relationships.

Skills taught during the convention session will reflect future leadership practice as Mentors, Facilitators, or Trainers of  parents. Nurses have the opportunity to learn Management skills that will be taught to parents to enhance consistency of their behaviors, as well as the systemic approach to change from within the family structure, Skill development will include: 

reframing: Observing and appreciating the positive within a situation.

problem solving: "Who's problem is it anyway?", goal setting: incremental steps neccessary to  take to succeed. discipline: a "no spanking" approach. relationship

systems: "Who's really in charge".

Communication: replicative speech, parenting styles, and directing a family meeting.

Pre-tests and post tests administration as a measurement of success.