Additionally, the EPI believes more should be
done to improve
early intervention, which would include the national
programme on mental health and wellbeing within schools; the establishment of a trained mental health and wellbeing lead guaranteed in every school, college and university; and high quality statutory PSHE in all schools and colleges.
Parenting
interventions that are delivered during this developmental period are necessary in order to capture the groups of youth and families (i) currently experiencing problems, but who
did not receive an
intervention during
early childhood; (ii) those who received an
intervention in
early childhood, but who continue to experience problems and (iii) those who are not currently experiencing problems, but are at risk for developing problems later in adulthood.7 In Steinberg's 2001 presidential address to the Society for Research on Adolescence, a concluding remark was made for the need to develop a systematic, large - scale, multifaceted and ongoing public health campaign for parenting
programmes for parents of adolescents.8 Despite the wealth of knowledge that has been generated over the past decade on the importance of parents in adolescent development, a substantial research gap still exists in the parenting literature in regards to
interventions that support parents of adolescents.