A Model of Intention to Participate in Parenting Interventions: The Role of Parent Cognitions and Behaviors

Post-Adoption Help-Seeking in Portugal: A Comprehensive Study on Parental Difficulties and Help-Seeking Behaviors and Perceptions

“…An interesting finding is that the group effect on parents’ availability to participate become non-significant after controlling for group’s parental difficulties. Therefore, while help-seeking seems to vary based on family type more than based on parental difficulties, the availability to participate in future psychological parenting interventions seems to be dependent on parental difficulties, a finding that mirrors prior conclusions concerning the influence of parenting-related challenges on parents’ intention to participate in future parenting interventions [ 43 ]; this also indicates that remediative interventions may have a greater acceptability than preventive ones.…”

“…Previous research has highlighted the greater acceptability of psychological parenting interventions among adoptive rather than biological parents [ 4 ], though focused on children’s rather than parents’ own needs. Besides, most studies have assessed acceptability after rather than before intervention delivery [ 16 ], focusing more on the behavioral component of program engagement (e.g., attendance rates) as opposite to the attitudinal one [ 42 ], which can encompass perceived intervention benefits/utility [ 42 ] and intention to participate [ 43 ]; this lack of knowledge limited our understanding of more nuanced factors likely to influence parental initial intention to engage in parenting interventions (e.g., parents’ psychological distress, difficulties in the parent–child relationship [ 43 ]), which could offer insights for intervention’s development and dissemination. Accordingly, further research is needed to carefully assess the acceptability of such interventions to adoptive parents [ 4 , 16 ] as well as its potential correlates (e.g., specific parental difficulties).…”

Effectiveness of a Web-Based Intervention on Parental Psychological Flexibility and Emotion Regulation: A Pilot Open Trial

“…We therefore want to explore usability and accessibility issues that would facilitate adherence to the treatment. Previous studies have shown that factors such as psychological distress, early help-seeking, or parental cognitions are important for adherence [ 111 ]. Future research would analyze the profiles of participants who did not complete it in comparison with those who did.…”

Engaging parents in preventive programs for adolescent mental health: A socio‐ecological framework

“…Parental self-efficacy has been defined as a "product of the interaction between parents' knowledge of the behaviours required to raise children effectively, their level of confidence in their ability to carry out these behaviours, and their belief that carrying out these behaviours will result in positive outcomes for their child" (Nicolas, Jorm, Cardamone-Breen, Lawrence & Yap 2020, p. 2). While Gonzalez et al (2020) demonstrated that parents who feel less confident about managing their child's behavior are more likely to intend to engage in a parenting program, it has also been demonstrated that if this "lack of confidence" is not then addressed during initial engagement it can become a barrier to continued intention to engage (Gonzalez et al, 2020;Smith et al, 2015). Further Nordstrom et al (2008) found parents' self-efficacy positively influenced their readiness to change their own parenting behaviors and was found to increase overall engagement (including initial and ongoing engagement).…”

“…Another important set of factors include understanding the thoughts, feelings, and mental health of individuals within parents' social circle. Concurring with the "perceived susceptibility" component of the HBM (Rosenstock, 1974), studies have reported that the current severity or lack thereof child mental health symptoms or behavioral challenges could affect parents' initial engagement in different ways (Gonzalez et al, 2020;Mauricio et al, 2014;Plath et al, 2016). On the basis of the HBM, parents would need to have better mental health literacy, including the awareness of potential risk and that there are ways to prevent adolescent mental health problems (Yap & Jorm, 2012), in order to be motivated to enroll in a universal prevention program, which generally target parents whose children are currently mentally well.…”