BIO

Hello, I am Kaile Martin and am currently a Nursing major at Florida State University. I hope to one day work in the ICU and eventually progress into becoming a Nurse Practitioner. I was born and raised in Miami, Fl and hope to further my future career there.

“What does it mean to parent?” A Qualitative study of parenting group perceptions

Abstract

TIPs for Parents is a free 8-week parenting group intervention study aimed at parents of five- to ten-year-olds in Tallahassee. The group is led by trained marriage and family therapists and aims to provide trauma-informed parenting support and tools. The 8-week program consists of a 1.5-hour group session per week and emphasizes a different parenting topic each week. Using data from interviews before the group started, the present study uses qualitative methodology to explore seven parents’ reasons for seeking a parenting group, as well as expectations and hopes for treatment outcomes. Most parenting group studies focus mainly on post-group experiences and quantitative data. This study adds to the current literature by assessing possible barriers to treatment or ways to increase interest in parenting groups.

Keywords: Parenting group