- How using school staff to teach parents book sharing skills, improves language skills in children.
Research Publication. A recent study explored a new approach to improving young children’s language development through a program called “Books Together.” This school-based initiative aims to teach parents effective techniques for reading with their 3-5 year old children, with promising results. Here’s what the researchers found: The study suggests that Books Together could be a … - Bullying in school: How the association between bullying and mental health is influenced by social disadvantage
Publication – The Associations between School-Level Disadvantage, Bullying Involvement and Children’s Mental Health Bullying in school age children is a risk factor for difficulties with mental health. This study aimed to better understand whether disadvantage influences the association between bullying and mental health in school age children. This paper reports on findings from the baseline … - ADHD and Screen use: The associations between caregiver mental health, parenting skills, and children’s ADHD symptoms
ADHD is one of the most common childhood neurodevelopmental disorders and is associated with difficulties in daily activities for children and later, as adults. ADHD is thought to be a combination of genetic and psychosocial factors, that give the opportunity to influence impact of the disorder, should the relevant psychosocial factors be understood. One factor … - Attachment, behavioural challenges in children and evidence based interventions
Hutchings, Judy, Margiad Williams, and Patti Leijten. “Attachment, Behavior Problems and Interventions.” (2023) Attachment theory has been a popular way to help understand why some children behave in ways parents find difficult to manage, whilst behavioural theory has been criticized as being over simplistic by focusing on externalising behaviours, rather than internal processes. When we … - World Anti-Bullying Forum, Raleigh, USA.
Margiad and Ruth attended the World Anti-Bullying Forum in Raleigh, North Carolina, in October 2023. This is the largest anti-bullying conference in the world and is held every two years. Margiad was involved in a symposium about the KiVa (against bullying) Stand Together trial results where she spoke about the process evaluation (how schools delivered … - CEIT wins a KESS 2 Sustainability Award
Lauren and Ruth attended the KESS 2 awards event in Cardiff, where CEIT was presented with an award for being shortlisted for the business sustainability award. CEIT partners with CEBEI to provide Masters and Doctorate scholarships with KESS 2. The partnership with CEBEI and KESS have provided opportunities for continuing development and evaluation of interventions … - CEIT and CEBEI Professor gives keynote speech at BABCP 50th Anniversary conference, Cardiff
udy’s presentation focused on parenting and its history and how her own and colleagues work had developed the field over the 50 years. A key issue for dissemination of parenting programmes is how to get them to be delivered effectively in frontline, coalface, services. We know what the relevant content is but still have a lot to learn about how to deliver effective services and what is needed by families and in what sort of circumstances. - Showcasing evidence based interventions – Cardiff 2023
Dr Margiad Williams and Dr Anwen Williams attended the Cardiff event of the National Education show, along with Bangor University, in October. Promoting the centres work with evidence based interventions with schools in bullying education, health and social care with parenting programmes and the benefits of early intervention. - Train the trainer – Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) Training, Oxford
The purpose of the three-day training was to give people a background to the science and evidence underpinning effective parenting interventions, particularly focused on the PLH young children programme targeting parents of 2 to 9-year-olds. - CEIT Researchers attend the European Society for Prevention Research (EUSPR) Conference 2023The EUSPR conference 2023 was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It covered a wide array of topics, but the main theme was improving prevention infrastructure. We heard about optimising online parenting interventions, parenting in crisis and the prevention of child sexual abuse. Parenting in a crisis was most striking, as The Department of Social …
- CEIT Professor attends the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) conference 2023CEIT Professor Judy Hutchings spoke at this conference in Edinburgh hosted by ISPCAN. The quality of parenting program implementation significantly affects the extent to which a program is delivered effectively and becomes embedded in everyday services. The Parenting for Lifelong Health for Young Children (PLH-YC) parenting program was developed specifically for implementation in low- and middle-income contexts, tested in 5 randomised trials, and adapted for use in Montenegro.
- CEIT Professor visits the House of Lords with Bangor Alumni, 2023
Professor Judy Hutchings was one of the Bangor University staff to attend an event for 180 alumni, honorary fellows, friends of the University, guests who were hosted in the Cholmondeley Room and terrace of the House of Lords - Graduation success for CEIT and CEBEI Post graduate
CEIT and CEBEI researcher Claire recruited parents for an online pilot version of the programme (Books together). She completed her thesis, successfully passed her viva and graduated this summer.
Generating funding for research to add to the evidence base for early intervention