ABSTRACT
Matthew R. Sanders and his colleagues and collaborators should be congratulated and celebrated for accomplishing something rare. They have developed a behavioral family intervention (the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program), worked extremely hard to implement this program on a populationwide basis in Australia, and have carried out evaluations of the Triple P program that both meet the normal standards for scientific evaluations as well as find significant improvements produced by Triple P. The latter accomplishment is truly rare. As Sanders pointed out in the introduction to his chapter (chapter 13): “Non-evaluated parent education and family support programs continue to dominate the field, where programs are offered to the public with no known effects.… the public is exposed to a diverse range of untested and, in some instances, even potentially harmful interventions” (Sanders, chapter 13, this volume).
