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 youth, and emotional communication in the family, thereby improving youth externalising and internalising difficulties.
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
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.
Sponsors
Mindful, Centre for Training and Research in Developmental Health, Department Psychiatry, 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
0 to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
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 criteria
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.
Outcome results
None listed