Integración de habilidades para la crianza de adolescentes: Intervención para el reforzamiento de la relación padres-adolescentes.

SUMMARY Parenting skills are an important aspect of child development. The training in development of these skills is a recent trend in order to enable parents to manage the child in their culture and community, with culture-specific training. Systematic presentations of evidence-based models in the field of parenting skills development are beginning to emerge in India. In this paper, we describe the development of a parenting skills development program (Integrated skill for parenting the adolescents ISPA) aimed at strengthening the parent-adolescent bond and describe its components. After an initial needs assessment from parents and their adolescent children, 13 parents were systematically given the parenting program for eleven sessions, each session focusing on different themes. The preand post- intervention results show statistically significant changes in parents’ attitudes in relating positively with their adolescents. We describe pros and cons of such approaches.