The answer is «yes» according to a team of psychologists from Loyola University Chicago who conducted a careful,
systematic review of 103 universal
interventions involving
over 10,000 students enrolled in 2 - and 4 - year colleges and universities and graduate programs.
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.
For youth mental health in particular, the findings suggest that
intervention procedures developed and tested
over the decades in randomized controlled trials do have value for clinical practice but that a
systematic restructuring of those procedures may enhance their benefits for clinically referred youths who are treated by practitioners in everyday treatment settings.