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Active Parenting Publishers,
Inc., was founded in 1980 by Dr. Michael H. Popkin, a former
child and family therapist and Coordinator of Child and Family
Services for Northside Community Mental Health Centers in Atlanta,
Georgia.
APP delivers quality education programs for parents, children
and teachers to schools, hospitals, social services organizations,
churches and the corporate market. The Active Parenting model
is heavily based upon the theories of Alfred Adler and Rudolf
Dreikurs (click here for more about Adlerian
Psychology as it applies to Active Parenting).
The most popular program
is Active Parenting Now, for parents of children ages
five to twelve. Active Parenting Publishers is recognized as
an innovator in the educational market and is committed to our
mission of developing human potential through our programs.
APP operates out of Marietta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. Our
products are distributed throughout the US as well as in Canada,
Japan, Korea and Sweden.
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Pioneers of the
world's first video-based parenting education program
The first three years of the company were devoted to research
and development, as Dr. Popkin’s vision of integrating video
and group discussion into advanced education programs evolved.
In June 1983, Active Parenting incorporated and introduced the
Active Parenting Discussion Program (APDP), the world’s
first video-based parenting education program. Delivered in just
six 2-hour sessions, the program was a huge success. As a result,
the company was ranked in the 242 spot on the Inc. 500 list of
fastest growing companies for the five-year period ending in
1989.
Effective
tools for the schools, social services, organizations, churches
and corporations
Following the success of APDP, Active Parenting Publishers went
on to produce its revised version, Active Parenting Today
(revised again in 2002 and released under the name Active
Parenting Now). This was followed by:
In 2000, Active Parenting
continued its pioneering tradition by launching the world's first
video-based online parenting class, Active
Parenting Today Online Groups. This program combines
video, reading and group discussion—all administered over
the Internet.
Active Parenting has
also formed alliances with other leading producers of parenting
education products, and is the exclusive distributor of:
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