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, . <br /> -2- <br /> behavior toward the child (Tracy, et al., 1975), Teaching parent-child interaction <br /> kthrough mode ing, coaching, encouraging, and explaining has been shown to <br /> enhance 4 parent's ability to respond more appropriately to the child (Robeson <br /> - 1 <br /> et al. , 1979; Denicola and Sandier, 1980), Another study reports that parenting <br /> education is effective, particularly if it is individualized and focuses on <br /> the parent-opild system (Reid at al„ 1980) . Three studies (Sandler at al. , 1978; <br /> . . . <br /> Wolfe and Slidler, 1978; and Sandler at al. , 1978) suggest that parent education <br /> is successful in improving the abusive parent's child management skills, contrbl <br /> • <br /> of anger, and generalized problem solving. . <br /> 1 •• <br /> More dramaticAvidence of the success of parenting education is available <br /> from a recent study (Wolfe, et al. , 1981). Parents who had been specifically <br /> trained to handle difficult child management situations and to control their <br /> anger and aggression reported fewer child related problems in the home, <br /> 1 <br /> demonstrated the continued use of child management techniques, and were viewed . <br /> by' their ca eworkers as functioning more effectively. Similar improvements <br /> were not fold d in the control group which had been receiving bi-weekly supervision <br /> I . <br /> I <br /> in the home in accordance with standard services provided by the state, Further <br /> support for the success of treatment program'was provided by the one-year <br /> follow-up of each family. <br /> AlthOu h the literature relating to parent education is generally supportive <br /> of the effectiveness and success of such programs, the majority of the studies <br /> are unsystematic, inferential, and highly speculative. Furthermore, the few <br /> systematic tudies that are available need replication specifically in the <br /> case of the abusive parent. Whereas the studies referred to above suggest the <br /> usefulness if parent education programs in the prevention and treatment of child <br /> abuse and neglect, no stndies randomly allocate abusive parents to different <br /> parent education programs and none examine the relative cost-effectiveness <br /> of such ,proirans, . • . . <br /> . . . <br />