新起点项目:一项预防离异家庭儿童心理健康问题的家长干预技术

New Beginnings Program:A Parent Intervention Training for Preventing Mental Health Problems in Children from Divorced Families

新起点项目(New Beginnings Program,NBP)是美国心理学家Wolchik等人为预防离异家庭儿童心理健康问题而编制的一套家长干预技术。NBP面向离异母亲,包括为期十周的团体培训及两次个别辅导。NBP课程的内容包括提高母亲与孩子的亲子关系质量,增强母亲管教孩子的有效性,增进父亲与孩子的接触与联系,减少父母冲突对孩子的影响,从而达到预防离异家庭儿童心理健康问题的目的。近年来我国离婚人数持续上升,离异家庭儿童的心理健康问题不容忽视。本文详细介绍了NBP的理论基础、发展过程、内容、形式等,收集了NBP的临床实验研究证据,并进一步讨论了如何将NBP引入中国家庭。

The New Beginnings Program（NBP） was a technology of parental intervention,developed by American psychologist Wolchik and his colleagues to prevent the mental health problems of children from divorced families.The NBP aims to conduct trainings for divorced mothers,including the 10-week group training and two individual sessions.The NBP involves improving the quality of parent-child relationship,strengthening the mother＇s effective disciplining of the children and the father＇s contact with the children,and reducing the effect of parental conflict on the children, for the purpose of preventing the mental health problems of children from divorced families.The divorce rate in China has been escalating in recent years,and the mental health problems of children from divorced families cannot be ignored.This article gives a detailed introduction of the theoretical basis,development,content,and forms of the NBP,collects relevant clinical evidence,and discusses the approaches to introducing the NBP into Chinese families.