Speaker
Presentation in English
BARBARA MOWDER
PACE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK. UNITED STATES
Barbara A. Mowder is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Parent-Child Institute (PCI) at Pace University-NYC. As a licensed psychologist, certified school psychologist, and an academic, she has been conducting research and writing about parents, parenting, parent-child relationships, and parenting theory and assessment for over three decades.
More specifically, she conceptualized the Parent Development Theory (PDT) after conducting research with many parents over an extended period of time. In addition, she developed parent assessment measures as well as a parenting program manual. Most recently, with her PCI research team, she coordinated the development of digital parenting workshops which are consistent with the biopsychosocial model of child development as well as parenting theory and research. Her parenting work closely aligns with cognitive behavioral and social learning theories, Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, and the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Multicultural Guidelines. Currently, she is working on a parenting book as well as children’s books, all of which incorporate her extensive research on the importance of positive parenting behaviors.
The Impact of Digital Parenting Workshops on Participants’ Positive Parenting Behaviors
This symposium is centered on newly created digital parenting workshops. The parenting workshops are developmentally sensitive, with each of the six addressing parenting children across the lifespan (i.e., parenting infants/toddlers, preschoolers, elementary school aged children, adolescents, late adolescents, adult aged children). Each of the workshops is less than an hour, presented in TED-talk style, and focuses on the Parent Development Theory (PDT), children’s biopsychosocial development, parenting challenges, and positive parenting recommendations.
The symposium incorporates four presentations, (1) parenting theory, (2) parent assessment, (3) design and examples of the digital parenting workshops, and (4) current research examining the efficacy of the digital parenting workshops in supporting positive parenting behaviors.
The first presentation addresses parenting theory with a particular focus on the Parent Development Theory (PDT) which takes the perspective that parenting is associated with the social role of being a parent. Concommitant with the parent role are behavioral expectations, including, for instance, bonding, education, general welfare and protection, responsitivity, and sensitivity.
The second presentation examines parents’ perceptions of the importance of parenting behaviors at children’s developmental stages as well as those of subject matter experts (SMEs).
Third, the content and design of the workshops will be discussed, along with the presentation of examples of the parenting workshops.
Fourth, current research associated with the parenting workshops will be presented.
The primary research project includes participant demographic factors, a parenting measure assessing the importance of parenting behaviors, the participant selected parenting workshop, a second measure of participants’ assessment of the importance of parenting behaviors, and finally, a brief evaluation of the workshop.
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