The evidence reported here leads us to reject this contention. Assuming that depressive symptoms reflect stress, there is little or no evidence that parenting education or coping skills education causes an increase in distress related to stress in parents. To the contrary, in all but one study, parents who participated in these interventions benefited by experiencing reductions in distress. There was one exception: a study by McIntyre [submitted for publication, 2007] had a negative unweighted effect size of d 5 20.13, but we believe it should be considered an outlier given the outcomes in the other studies. Further, McIntyre [submitted for publication, 2007] reported significant reductions in the primary target of the intervention, problem, and adaptive behavior in young children with autism. A notable finding was that in studies that compared skills based educational interventions to support groups, the parents in the noneducational groups did not improve on measures of psychological distress.