Effectiveness of the BEA Parent Training Program in Latvia.

This study assessed the effectiveness of the BEA Parent Training Program in Latvia designed to enhance mothers' parenting sense of competence and decrease preschool age children's behavior problems. In total 106 mothers of preschool-age children participated: 60 mothers who participated in a 10-week parent training program and 46 mothers who were included in the control group. Mothers completed the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale (PSOC; Johnston & Mash, 1989) and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL/1,5-5; Achenbach & Rescorla, 2000) pre- and post-training, and at 6 month follow-up. The results show that mothers' participation in the parent training program led to an increase in their parenting sense of competence and a decrease in the mother-reported child behavior problems. These changes remained consistent at the 6 month follow-up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]