其他摘要：This paper describes and evaluates a training program for parentalleaders. Nineteen volunteers from childcarecenters and a university participated. Training included 3 areas. In the first, subject mastery, participants attended eight, 21/2 hours weekly sessions, and presented a written examination, a written feedback, and a pre-post parenting test. In the second, program applications, participants were observed teaching a parenting session to a group of parents with young children. In the third, program teaching, participants were observed as educators organizing and leading a 5-weeks series of parenting c1asses. Evaluations of the training program showed improved knowledge and healthier parenting attitudes, particularly regarding cognitive strategies, nurturing and discipline abilities, punishment, and parent -child role-reversal. Results are discussed in terms of the importance of extensive and formal training for parental educators as compared with previous findings.
关键词：Parenting; parental educators; parental leaders; cognitive strategies; nurturing; discipline;paternidad; educación de padres; líderes en paternidad; estrategias cognitivas; habilidades de crianza; disciplina
