Abstract
This exploratory study examined the impact of a 15-hour, 5-week training module utilizing the WisdomPath Way Reparative Parenting Approach on the self-efficacy of foster and adoptive parents. The WisdomPath Way Reparative Parenting Approach is a psychoeducational model that consists of four educational components (Relational LifeSpace, Brain-Based Wisdom, Developmental Pathways, Wisdom-Based Coaching) that provides foster and adoptive parents with knowledge and skills to know how to coach their children to develop emotion regulation skills and to accept and surrender to limits/boundaries and directions/rules. This study utilized secondary data from the training module that utilized a pre/post-test design which was originally administered as the TOPSE (Tool to measure Parenting Self-Efficacy), to measure parental self-efficacy. The study began with 21 parents of foster or adopted children from Yolo County, CA. Study findings are based on a paired sample t-test and revealed a statistically significant positive difference in total pretest and posttest scores t (9) =4.697, p=.001, (p<.05). The findings indicate a greater need for more research involving the WisdomPath Way Reparative Parenting Approach with the foster and adoptive community.