Large effect sizes were also found in mothers» variables: a decrease in self -
reported dysfunctional parenting practices and an improved sense of competence and observed positive parenting.
Not exact matches
Further, DOCC
parents reported significant reductions over time in ratings of child difficulty,
parent — child
dysfunctional interactions, and parental distress related to child behavior.
AAI, Adult Attachment Interview; AFFEX, System for Identifying Affect Expression by Holistic Judgement; AIM, Affect Intensity Measure; AMBIANCE, Atypical Maternal Behaviour Instrument for Assessment and Classification; ASCT, Attachment Story Completion Task; BAI, Beck Anxiety Inventory; BDI, Beck Depression Inventory; BEST, Borderline Evaluation of Severity over Time; BPD, borderline personality disorder; BPVS - II, British Picture Vocabulary Scale II; CASQ, Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire; CBCL, Child Behaviour Checklist; CDAS - R, Children's
Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale - Revised; CDEQ, Children's Depressive Experiences Questionnaire; CDIB, Child Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines; CGAS, Child Global Assessment Schedule; CRSQ, Children's Response Style Questionnaire; CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; DASS, Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scales; DERS, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale; DIB - R, Revised Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines; DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; EA, Emotional Availability Scales; ECRS, Experiences in Close Relationships Scale; EMBU, Swedish acronym for Own Memories Concerning Upbringing; EPDS, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale; FES, Family Environment Scale; FSS, Family Satisfaction Scale; FTRI, Family Trauma and Resilience Interview; IBQ - R, Infant Behaviour Questionnaire, Revised; IPPA, Inventory of
Parent and Peer Attachment; K - SADS, Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School - Age Children; KSADS - E, Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia - Episodic Version; MMD, major depressive disorder; PACOTIS, Parental Cognitions and Conduct Toward the Infant Scale; PPQ, Perceived
Parenting Quality Questionnaire; PD, personality disorder; PPVT - III, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Third Edition; PSI - SF,
Parenting Stress Index Short Form; RSSC, Reassurance - Seeking Scale for Children; SCID - II, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM - IV; SCL -90-R, Symptom Checklist 90 Revised; SCQ, Social Communication Questionnaire; SEQ, Children's Self - Esteem Questionnaire; SIDP - IV, Structured Interview for DSM - IV Personality; SPPA, Self - Perception Profile for Adolescents; SSAGA, Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism; TCI, Temperament and Character Inventory; YCS, Youth Chronic Stress Interview; YSR, Youth Self -
Report.
Compared with control children, they had more difficulties with friendships, 29 poorer theory of mind, 16 difficulties labelling and understanding the causes of common emotions, 16 increased fantasy proneness and difficulty distinguishing fantasy and reality, 31 increased negative attributional style,
dysfunctional attitudes, rumination and self - criticism.32 They also experience difficulties in the mother — child relationship, with four studies
reporting high levels of disrupted attachment styles, 21, 29, 31, 32 and in role - play scenarios elevated levels of role - reversal with
parents, fear of abandonment, and negative expectations of
parents.31 These factors are known to put children at risk of poor mental health outcomes, and indeed, this appears to be the case.
Results indicate that both intervention groups
reported significantly decreased child problem behaviors,
dysfunctional parenting, parental depression, and parental stress at the end of the intervention as compared to the control group.
Results indicate participants in the 1 -2-3 Magic group
reported significantly less problem behaviors for their children, and significantly less
dysfunctional parenting, at the end of the intervention when compared to the control group.
Intervention group mothers also
reported increased
parenting confidence and rated their partners as showing significantly fewer
dysfunctional parenting practices.
Following program completion (T2) intervention group fathers and mothers
reported significantly fewer child behavior problems,
dysfunctional parenting practices, and interparental conflict about child - rearing than waitlist
parents.
However groups did not differ on maternal distress on the ECBI or on the PSI
Parenting Stress and
Parent - Child
Dysfunctional Interaction subscales, although, on the Difficult Child subscale, treatment mothers
reported fewer problem behaviors.
They also
reported reduced parental stress and less use of
dysfunctional parenting practices.
Results indicated that participation in Level 4 Triple P contributed to significant reductions in
parent -
reported levels of child behavior problems and self -
reported levels of
dysfunctional parenting over the 2 - year follow - up.
Results indicate that mothers and fathers from the intervention preschool group
reported significant reductions in
dysfunctional parenting behavior.
Results showed that
parents in the intervention group
reported a greater decrease in child behavioral problems (d = 0.45),
dysfunctional parenting practices (d = 0.69), parental stress (d = 0.44), and a greater increase in
parenting confidence (d = 0.45) in comparison to
parents in the waitlist control group at post intervention.
Maternal
reports of child behaviors and personal distress as predictors of
dysfunctional parenting
Dysfunctional parenting has been assumed as an important risk factor in the development of psychological disturbances in adulthood and several studies have
reported a significant correlation between maternal PPD and altered cognitive / affective child development.16 Only a complex, clinical and multidisciplinary approach could deeply support the transition to parenthood and study results could be considered only a guidance in the assessment of psychopathologic disturbances.Furthermore, poor attention has been paid to the mood disturbance of fathers and to the association between depression and anxiety.
The PSI - SF is a 36 - item self -
report instrument for
parents of children ages 1 month to 12 years containing three subscales (
Parent Distress,
Parent — child
Dysfunctional Interaction, Difficult Child) with Cronbach's alphas of 0.87, 0.80, and 0.85, respectively, and 6 - month test - retest reliabilities of 0.85, 0.68, and 0.78, respectively (Abidin 1983).
The PS total score correlated 0.73 with observed
parent dysfunctional discipline practices (Arnold et al. 1993) and 0.53 with maternal
report of self - confidence (Morawska and Sanders 2007).
Using mothers»
reports of child behaviour and
parenting practices, mothers in the SD group
reported significantly less child behaviour problems, less use of
dysfunctional discipline strategies, and greater
parenting competence than mothers in the WL group.