Parent Skills Training: Expanding School-Based Services for Adolescent Mothers

In: Research on social work practice, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 161-171

Abstract

This article reports the results of a collaborative intervention effort between a teen-parent program and a school of social work Social work faculty and students participated in a program aimed at strengthening parental skills and the utilization of social support among adolescent mothers who were enrolled in a special high school program. The results of this evaluation study point to additional factors, such as empathy training and stress management, which need to be included in a comprehensive service-delivery program for school-age mothers.