The effectiveness of a community-based intervention for parents with FASD
- Authors:
- DENYS Kennedy, RASMUSSEN Carmen, HENNEVELD Dorothy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 47(2), June 2011, pp.209-219.
- Publisher:
- Springer
A Step by Step program in which mentors work with parents affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) on a one-to-one basis was evaluated. Mentors help clients identify and work towards meeting their needs and achieving their goals. Data from 24 closed client files was collected and analyzed and as predicted, the program was effective in helping clients reduce their needs and achieve their goals. The client’s reason for leaving the program as well as whether or not they had a formal FASD diagnosis had an impact on their success in the program. Data collected on additional mental health issues, experience of abuse and addictions helped to characterize the sample of clients and correlations were found between client’s experience of abuse and their past and/or present addictions issues. Limitations of this study as well as future implications were also discussed.
- Subject terms:
- mental health problems, mentoring, parental skills training, parenting, parents, addiction;
- Content type:
- research
- Link:
- Journal home page
- ISSN online:
- 1573-2789
- ISSN print:
- 0010-3853