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The Adults and Children Together (ACT) “Parents Raising Safe Kids” Violence Prevention Curriculum is designed to prevent young children from becoming victims or future perpetrators of violence by helping parents understand the effects of violence on children’s development and learn nonviolent parenting skills. This study examined the effectiveness of ACT with parents through the first controlled evaluation of the program. Results demonstrate improvements related to all four modules of the ACT program: anger management, social problem solving, nonaggressive discipline, and media violence literacy. All parents surveyed at follow-up reported complete cessation of physical punishment. These, along with other promising results supporting ACT’s effectiveness, should encourage others to use this easily implemented, low-cost violence prevention program for parents.
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Porter, B., Howe, T. Pilot Evaluation of the “ACT Parents Raising Safe Kids” Violence Prevention Program. Journ Child Adol Trauma 1, 193–206 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1080/19361520802279158
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