Physical and emotional punishment of children is highly prevalent in the Asia-Pacific region. These actions predict a range of physical and emotional harms, prompting a worldwide effort to eliminate them. A key strategy in this effort is to change parental beliefs regarding the acceptability of physical and emotional punishment. The Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting (PDEP) program was designed to change those beliefs by teaching parents about child development and strengthening their problem-solving skills. A sample of 377 parents in the Asia-Pacific region completed the program: 329 mothers and 47 fathers of children ranging in age from infancy to adolescence. The parents lived in Australia (n = 135), Japan (n = 172) or the Philippines (n = 70). In all three countries, parents’ approval of punishment in general, and physical punishment specifically, declined and they became less likely to attribute typical child behavior to intentional misbehavior. By the end of the program, at least 75% of parents in each country felt better prepared to respond nonviolently to conflict with their children.

对儿童的身体和情感惩罚在亚太地区非常普遍。这些行为预示了一系列的身体和情感伤害，促使世界范围内消除这些伤害。这项努力的关键策略是改变父母对身体和情感惩罚的可接受性的信念。每天为人父母的积极纪律（PDEP）计划旨在通过向父母传授有关儿童发育的知识并增强其解决问题的能力来改变这些观念。亚太地区有377名父母的样本完成了该计划：从婴儿期到青春期的329名母亲和47名儿童父亲。父母住在澳大利亚（n = 135），日本（n = 172）或菲律宾（n= 70）。在这三个国家中，父母对惩罚的总体认可，特别是对身体惩罚的认可都下降了，他们不太可能将典型的儿童行为归因于故意的不当行为。到该计划结束时，每个国家至少有75％的父母感觉更好地准备了非暴力地回应与子女的冲突。