None listed
Conditions
Brief 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 children, and emotional communication in the family, thereby improving children's internalising and externalising difficulties.
Interventions
TinT is a group parenting program held weekly for two hours per week over a period of 6 weeks (total of six sessions). Using a structured manual, the program was delivered by two of the program authors (Ann Harley and Christiane Kehoe). Co-leaders were volunteers who were mental health professionals or psychology graduates and were trained in the Tuning in to Kids program (Havighurst & Harley, 2007). Parents of Grade six children learned skills in emotional competence and were taught how to re
TinT is a group parenting program held weekly for two hours per week over a period of 6 weeks (total of six sessions). Using a structured manual, the program was delivered by two of the program authors (Ann Harley and Christiane Kehoe). Co-leaders were volunteers who were mental health professionals or psychology graduates and were trained in the Tuning in to Kids program (Havighurst & Harley, 2007). Parents of Grade six children learned skills in emotional competence and were taught how to respond to their children's negative emotions. Parents also learned how to respond with empathy and how to manage rejection and facilitate their child's emotional autonomy. The method used included psycho education, mindfulness techniques, emotion awareness and regulation strategies, and role plays. Parents and their Grade six children completed questionnaires pre and post intervention, and the following year when the child was in their first year of secondary school (Term 2, Grade 7).
Sponsors
The University of Melbourne
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
32 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Primary carer (males or females; age range was not restricted, parents ranged in age from 32 - 65.8 years; Mean age = 44.1) with Grade six child (male or female; age range was restricted to 11-13 years; Mean age of child participants was = 12.01)
Exclusion criteria
Parents without sufficient English language skills to answer questionnaires or understand the program content were excluded. Children with a primary diagnosis of a communication or pervasive developmental disorder were excluded
Outcome results
None listed