Improving Social-Behavioral Adjustment in Adolescents through Parent Training

通过家长培训改善青少年的社会行为调整

• 批准号: 8257516
• 负责人: Lorraine C. Taylor
• 金额: $ 52.27万
• 依托单位: 3-C INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-12-05 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8257516
• 关键词: Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Advocate; Aftercare; Anxiety; Area; Attention; Behavior; Behavioral; Biological; Child; Childhood; Chronic; Cognitive; Communication; Complex; Conflict (Psychology); Development; Disease; Early treatment; Economics; Educational Intervention; Educational workshop; Emotional; Evaluation; Facilities and Administrative Costs; Failure; Family; Family Relationship; Family dynamics; Family member; Feedback; Financial cost; Fostering; Freedom; Goals; Health; Health Personnel; Health Professional; Individual; Intervention; Learning; Letters; Manuals; Marketing; Mediation; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Mental Health Services; Mental disorders; Methods; Online Systems; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Pattern; Peer Group; Peer Pressure; Peer Review; Phase; Printing; Problem Solving; Process; Provider; Public Health; Publications; Randomized; Reporting; Resources; Risk; Risk-Taking; Role; Sales; Scientific Evaluation; Self Efficacy; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Social Development; Social Problems; Social isolation; Societies; Staging; Stress; Structure; System; Teenagers; Test Result; Testing; Training; Videotape; Withdrawal; Work; Writing; Youth; anti social; base; cognitive change; commercial application; commercialization; coping; cost; design; effective therapy; efficacy testing; empowered; evidence base; experience; group intervention; improved; innovation; multi-component intervention; peer; prevent; product development; programs; prototype; psychologic; research and development; skills; social; technological innovation; tool; web site; young adult

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): During adolescence, youth undergo pivotal biological, emotional, and cognitive shifts. Concomitant with immense internal shifts, adolescent peer relations become increasingly complex (e.g., cliques) and challenging (e.g., peer pressure) and, as teens struggle to define their young adult role, relationships within the family can become increasingly strained and conflictual. When youth experience difficulties navigating the transitions of adolescence, they are at heightened risk for developing a variety of mental health disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety), maladaptive behavior patterns (e.g., self-destructive or risk-taking behaviors) and academic failure. Parents are often at a loss for how to communicate with their teen to help them through the turmoil of adolescence. The resulting elevated levels of parental stress not only negatively impacts adolescent adjustment, but also places parents at heightened risk for their own mental health problems, particularly depression. This Phase II SBIR project will continue the research and development (R&D) of a unique parent training intervention product, the Parent Guide to Adolescent Social-Behavioral Development (PGA). PGA is specifically designed to help parents learn and practice strategies to effectively help their teen through the interpersonal struggles of adolescence (with peers and family members). PGA will help parents learn how to work collaboratively with their adolescent to achieve social goals, thereby building parental confidence, reducing related parental stress, and enhancing parent-teen communication. The full PGA product will offer manualized, structured scripts for 12 parent group sessions, a wide array of written, video, and web-based intervention materials for parents, and a variety of online professional development and implementation support resources for providers. Once the program is finalized, a scientific evaluation of its efficacy will be conducted. Parents will be randomly assigned to PGA treatment (TX) or attention control (AC) conditions (n=72 each). Efficacy will be evaluated by examining changes in (a) parent understanding of social issues facing adolescents and social problem solving skills; (b) parental self-efficacy for helping their teen; (c) parenting stress; (d) adolescent social and behavioral functioning; and (e) quality of the parent-teen relationship (e.g., communication, conflict) as a function of treatment condition. We expect the TX condition to show significant positive change in each outcome area versus the AC condition which is expected to show little to no change. PGA will be a highly unique, innovative product that will fill a niche in the intervention marketplace not currently filled through any other commercialized product. This SBIR will yield a valuable resource for providers and parents with the potential to make a significant impact on the lives of adolescents and their families.

描述（由申请人提供）：在青春期，青少年会经历关键的生物、情感和认知转变。伴随着巨大的内部转变，青少年的同伴关系变得越来越复杂（例如，拉帮结派）和挑战性（例如，同伴压力），并且当青少年努力定义自己的成年角色时，家庭内部的关系可能会变得越来越紧张和冲突。当青少年在青春期的过渡过程中遇到困难时，他们患各种精神健康障碍（例如抑郁、焦虑）、适应不良行为模式（例如自我毁灭或冒险行为）和学业失败的风险就会增加。父母常常不知道如何与孩子沟通以帮助他们度过青春期的混乱。由此产生的父母压力水平升高不仅会对青少年的适应产生负面影响，而且还会使父母面临更高的心理健康问题风险，尤其是抑郁症。第二阶段SBIR项目将继续研究和开发独特的家长培训干预产品，即青少年社会行为发展家长指南（PGA）。 PGA 专门帮助父母学习和实践策略，以有效帮助青少年度过青春期的人际交往（与同龄人和家庭成员）。 PGA 将帮助父母学习如何与青少年合作实现社会目标，从而建立父母的信心，减少相关的父母压力，并加强父母与青少年的沟通。完整的 PGA 产品将为 12 个家长小组会议提供手动化、结构化的脚本，为家长提供各种书面、视频和基于网络的干预材料，以及为提供商提供的各种在线专业发展和实施支持资源。一旦该计划最终确定，将对其功效进行科学评估。家长将被随机分配至 PGA 治疗 (TX) 或注意力控制 (AC) 条件组（每组 n = 72）。将通过检查以下方面的变化来评估效力：(a) 家长对青少年面临的社会问题的理解和解决社会问题的技能； (b) 父母帮助青少年的自我效能感； (c) 养育压力； (d) 青少年的社会和行为功能； (e) 父母与青少年关系的质量（例如沟通、冲突）作为治疗条件的函数。我们预计 TX 条件在每个结果区域都会显示出显着的积极变化，而 AC 条件预计几乎没有变化。 PGA 将是一种高度独特的创新产品，将填补目前任何其他商业化产品无法填补的干预市场的空白。该 SBIR 将为提供者和家长提供宝贵的资源，有可能对青少年及其家庭的生活产生重大影响。