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Parenting training and children´s rights
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In public health policies the child-parent relationship is regarded as a determinant for children’s development and future health. During the first two decades of the twenty-first century Sweden implemented parenting training on a universal level as a proactive measure. Sweden ratified the UN Convention on the rights of the Child in 1990 by which f...
This study explores how children describe their experiences of family interaction with parents who had taken part in parenting training. 11 children between five and nine years participated in semi-structured interviews which were analysed using a qualitative content analysis method. The children described themselves as active participants in famil...
Background: Group based parenting training is normally implemented on two levels, as either selective or universal interventions. In 2008 the Swedish government presented a national strategy for parental support which recom-mended structured manual based parenting training courses to be available for all parents with children 0-17 years. The course...
This article analyses identity constructions in two manual-based universal parenting training programmes in Sweden, Connect (U) and All Children in Focus (ABC). The analysis was performed with discourse analysis of oral messages during parent training courses. The findings revealed that the parents’ subject positions altered between troubled and go...
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The aim of this study was to analyse discourses of parenting training in official inquires in Sweden that explicitly deal with the bringing up of children and parental education and how the representations of the problems and their solutions affect parental subject positions in the early welfare state and at the onset of the 21st century.
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In Sweden, all parents of children aged 0–18 years are entitled to attend free parenting courses as part of a national strategy adopted by Parliament in 2009. This broad parental support welfare strategy is expected to fulfil the intentions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In this study, two par-enting training manuals were analysed...
The Connect (u) parenting training program and children´s rights
"Vi har fått häpnadsväckande bra resultat. Många har upptäckt att sånt som känts tabubelagt faktiskt går att prata om". Det säger Stefan Laack om sitt arbete i Tanzania och Zambia.
