Family Foundations : The Evidence

Published Outcome Reports in Peer-Review Journals

Feinberg, M.E., & Kan, M.L. (2008). Establishing Family Foundations: impact of a transition to parenting program on coparenting, depression, parent-child relationship, and infant regulation. Journal of Family Psychology, 22: 253-263.

Feinberg, M.E., Kan, M.L., & Goslin, M. (2009). Enhancing coparenting, parenting, and child self-regulation: effects of Family Foundations 1 year after birth. Prevention Science, 10: 276-285. doi:10.1007/s11121-009-0130-4

Feinberg, M.E., Jones, D.E., Kan, M.L., Goslin, M. (2010). Effects of Family Foundations on parents and children: 3.5 years after baseline. Journal of Family Psychology, 24: 532-542.

Solmeyer, A., Feinberg, M.E., Coffman, D., & Jones, D.E. (2014). The effects of the Family Foundations prevention program on coparenting and child adjustment: a mediation analysis. Prevention Science, 15: 213–223. doi:10.1007/s11121-013-0366

Kan, M.L., & Feinberg, M.E. (2014). Can a family-focused, transition-to-parenthood program prevent parent and partner aggression among couples with young children? Violence and Victims, 29: 967-980. 

Feinberg, M.E., Jones, D.E., Roettger, M.E., Solmeyer, A, & Hostetler, M. (2014). Long-term follow-up of a randomized trial of Family Foundations: effects on children’s emotional, behavioral, and school adjustment. Journal of Family Psychology, 28: 821-831.

Feinberg, M.E., Roettger, M.E., Jones, D.E., Paul, I., & Kan, M.L. (2015). Effects of a psychosocial couple-based prevention program on adverse birth outcomes. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 19: 102-111.

Kan, M.L., & Feinberg, M.E. (2015). Impacts of a coparenting-focused intervention on links between pre-birth intimate partner violence and observed parenting. Journal of Family Violence, 30: 363-372.

Feinberg, M.E., Jones, D.E., Roettger, M.E., Hostetler, M.L., Sakuma, K., Paul, I.M., Ehrenthal, D.B. (2015). Preventive effects on birth outcomes: buffering impact of maternal stress, depression, and anxiety. Journal of Maternal and Child Health.

Feinberg, M.E., Jones, D.E., Hostetler, M.L., Roettger, M.E., Paul, I.M., Ehrenthal, D.B. (2016). Couple-Focused Prevention at the Transition to Parenthood, A Randomized Trial: Effects on Coparenting, Parenting, Family Violence, and Parent and Child Adjustment. Prevention Science, 17 (6), 751-764

Feinberg, M.E., Jones, D.E., Hostetler, M.L., Roettger, M.E., Paul, I.M., & Ehrenthal, D.B. (2016). Couple-focused prevention at the transition to parenthood, a randomized trial: Effects on coparenting, parenting, family violence, and parent and child adjustment. Prevention Science, 17(6), 751-764. 

Kapusta, N.D., Philipp, A.C., & Feinberg, M.E. (2017). Co-parenting during transition to parenthood: Creating a healthy nurturing environment for children. Austin Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

Feinberg, M. E., Xia, M., Fosco, G. M., Heyman, R. E., & Chow, S. M. (2017). Dynamical systems modeling of couple interaction: A new method for assessing intervention impact across the transition to parenthood. Prevention Science, 1-12.

Feinberg, M. E., Xia, M., Fosco, G. M., Heyman, R. E., & Chow, S. M. (2017). Dynamical systems modeling of couple interaction: A new method for assessing intervention impact across the transition to parenthood. Prevention Science, 1-12.

Feinberg, M. E., & Jones, D. E. (2018). Experimental support for a family systems approach to child development: Multiple mediators of intervention effects across the transition to parenthood. Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice, 7(2), 63.

Jones, D. E., Feinberg, M. E., Hostetler, M. L., Roettger, M. E., Paul, I. M., & Ehrenthal, D. B. (2018). Family and Child Outcomes 2 Years After a Transition to Parenthood Intervention. Family Relations, 67(2), 270-286.

Feinberg, M.E., Boring, J., Le, Y., Hostetler, M.L., Karre, J., Irvin, J., & Jones, D.E. (2019). Supporting military family resilience at the transition to parenthood: A randomized pilot trial of an online version of Family Foundations. Journal of Family Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/fare.12415

 

Related Family Foundations Publications

Brown, L. D., Feinberg, M. E., & Kan, M. L. (2012). Predicting engagement in a transition to parenthood program for couples, Evaluation and Program Planning. doi:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2011.05.001

Jones, D.E., Feinberg, M.E. & Hostetler, M.L. (2014). Costs to implement an effective transition-to-parenthood program for couples: Analysis of the Family Foundations program. Evaluation and Program Planning, 44, 59–67.

Lewin, A., Mitchell, S.J., Beers, L.S., Feinberg, M.E., (2015). Strengthening positive coparenting in teen parents: a cultural adaptation of an evidence-based intervention. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 36(3): 139-154.

Feinberg, M.E. & Kan, M.L. (2016). Family Foundations. In M.J. Van Ryzin, K.L. Kumpfer, G.M. Fosco, & M.T. Greenberg (Eds.), Family-based prevention programs for children and adolescents: Theory, research, and large-scale dissemination (pp.23-41). New York, NY. Psychology Press.