Coping Power: Child Group Facilitator Guide

"The Coping Power Program is based on a contextual social-cognitive model of childhood aggression (Lochman & Wells, 2002a; Lochman, Wells, & Murray, 2007), which in turn is a risk marker for later adolescent substance use and delinquency and can usefully serve as conceptual framework for cognitive-behavioral intervention. This model is consistent with Bronfenbrenner and Morris' (2006) multi-layered bioecological model of human development, and indicates two relevant sets of potential predictors of adolescent antisocial behavior that interact with each other (Lansford et al., 2018; Rothenberg et al., 2023): (1) child level factors (e.g., Strauman, 2017), including children's poor social-cognitive and decision-making skills, poor self-regulation, perceived peer context, and poor ability to resist peer pressure, and (2) contextual factors, including poor parental/caregiver involvement with, and discipline of, the child (e.g., Stormshak, DeVargas & Cardenas, 2018). It is assumed that broader contextual risk factors, such as neighborhood poverty and the level of neighborhood violence (Fite, Rubens, Evans, & Poquiz, 2018), and peer relations (e.g. McDonald & Gibson, 2018) also affect these child and family processes and children's subsequent behavior. The Coping Power Program, based on this model, is provided primarily to preadolescent and early adolescent aggressive children and their parents, although current adaptations are being tested with older adolescent samples"-- Provided by publisher.