A commentary on evidence-based parenting programs: Redressing misconceptions of the empirical support for Triple P.

Sanders, Matthew R. and Pickering, John A. and Kirby, James N. and Turner, Karen M.T. and Morawska, Alina and Mazzucchelli, Trevor and Ralph, Alan and Sofronoff, Kate. 2012. A commentary on evidence-based parenting programs: Redressing misconceptions of the empirical support for Triple P. BMC Medicine. 10: 145.

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BMC Medicine

DOI

10.1186/1741-7015-10-145

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1741-7015

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19956

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Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

A meta-analytic review of the Triple P-Positive Parenting program by Wilson et al., recently published in BMC Medicine, claimed to demonstrate that although Triple P is widely disseminated and adopted, the evidence attesting to the effectiveness of the program is not as convincing as it may appear. Although this review addresses the important issue of evaluation and reporting methods within evidence-based interventions, we contend that the Wilson et al. review contains a number of significant conceptual, methodological and interpretational inadequacies that render the key conclusions of their review problematic.