Tuning in to Teens: A parenting intervention for promoting parents' emotion socialisation practices and preventing internalising and externalising difficulties in adolescence
Tuning in to Teens: The prevention of mental health difficulties in adolescents using and emotion-focussed parenting program
Mindful, Centre for Training and Research in Developmental Health, Department Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
290 participants
Mar 28, 2014
Interventional
Conditions
Summary
A group-randomised controlled trial of a parenting intervention aimed to improve parenting skills in ways that facilitate the development of emotional competence in youth, and emotional communication in the family, thereby improving youth externalising and internalising difficulties.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria1
- Primary carer (males or females' age range is not restricted) with adolescent child (male or female; adolescents had to be currently enrolled in year 7 in participating schools; approximate age range 12-14 years).
Exclusion Criteria1
- Parents without sufficient English language skills to answer questionnaires or understand the program content were excluded. Youth with a primary diagnosis of a communication or pervasive developmental disorder were excluded.
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Interventions
TinT is a group parenting program held weekly for two hours per week over a period of 6 weeks (total six sessions). Using a structured manual, the program is being delivered by the program authors (Sophie Havighurst, Ann Harley, Christiane Kehoe) and an accredited Tuning in to Teens facilitator Dr Katherine Wilson. Co-leaders are volunteers who are mental health professional and are trained in the Tuning in to Teens program (Havighurst, Harley, Kehoe & Pizarro, 2012). The program aims to teach parents skills in responding to their adolescents' emotions, and the techniques used are psycho-education, mindfulness activities, role plays, discussion, dvd's. We aim to target parent functioning (i.e., parent psychological wellbeing, parent emotional competence, parent emotion socialisation) to improve family functioning and youth emotional- and behavioural functioning.
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ACTRN12614000579695