Development of Parent Training for Foster Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities

College of Nursing Art and Science

Professor Emi Furukawa

Parent training has been conducted since the 1960s and is said to be effective in improving children's life skills, decreasing problematic behaviors, help parents at acquiring parenting skills, and decreasing parental stress and depression. The basic platform of the Japan Parent Training Study Group is to learn the importance of observing “behavior” objectively, paying attention to children's positive behavior, recognizing it, and praising it. The basic platform of the Japan Parent Training Institute is being developed with the cooperation of support groups in Finland and Japan.