Disadvantaged, Multi-Stressed Families Adrift in a Sea of Professional Helpers

Escudero, Valentín; Friedlander, Myrna L.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-59369-2_6

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“…Therefore, the EPOCH construct was used as a latent variable in the hypothesized CFA models and as an observed variable in bivariate correlational analyses. We used Stata 14.2 SE (StataCorp, 2015) for data manipulation, descriptive statistics, and bivariate analyses and Mplus 7.4 (Muthen & Muthen, 1998-2017 for CFA models.…”

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“…Particularly, questions still remain whether the EPOCH measure is applicable to socioeconomically disadvantaged adolescents. Using nationally sampled data, the present study aims to examine the psychometric properties of the EPOCH measure and assess its applicability to adolescents raised from multistressed families that experience severe social, personal, and economic difficulties (Escudero & Friedlander, 2017), predominantly poor single-mother families from racial and ethnic minority groups.…”

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Validation of the Engagement, Perseverance, Optimism, Connectedness, and Happiness Measure in Adolescents from Multistressed Families: Using First- and Second-Order Confirmatory Factor Analysis Models

Choi

Ryu

Yang

2021

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

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The Engagement, Perseverance, Optimism, Connectedness, and Happiness (EPOCH) Measure of Adolescent Well-Being (Kern, M. L., Benson, L., Steinberg, E. A., and Steinberg, L. [2016]. The EPOCH measure of adolescent well-being. Psychological Assessment, 28, 586-597) is a recently developed and validated scale to assess adolescent well-being and positive functioning. This measure includes five dimensions of developmental assets (i.e., EPOCH) that can foster adolescents’ well-being, physical health, and other social-emotional outcomes. Prior studies have tested measure equivalence across demographic, cultural, and language groups. The current study examined the validity of the EPOCH measure, using a national sample of adolescents from socioeconomically disadvantaged families ( n = 3444) in the United States. Consistent with theoretical expectations, confirmatory factor analyses supported the hypothesized first-order and second-order factor structure. The overall EPOCH scale and its subscales were also associated as expected with adolescents’ depression, anxiety, behavior problems, delinquency, school connectedness, and social skills. Findings provide empirical support for the EPOCH and its underlying multidimensional theory of adolescent well-being. Unexpectedly, the dimension of engagement was not found to be highly related to other dimensions, and its items had low factor loadings on the EPOCH construct in the current data. Implications of the study are described and directions for future research discussed.

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Validation of the Engagement, Perseverance, Optimism, Connectedness, and Happiness Measure in Adolescents from Multistressed Families: Using First- and Second-Order Confirmatory Factor Analysis Models

Choi

Ryu

Yang

2021

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

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“…between clients and therapists is considered crucial for success (Bachler et al, 2016;Escudero & Friedlander, 2017). The present study therefore also investigates if the working alliance predicts therapy outcome.…”

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“…These families are characterised by a combination of mental health problems and behavioural problems, including serious parenting or family problems (cluster 2 and termed ‘multiproblem families’ by Bodden & Dekovic, 2016). Because these families often distrust and resist assistance due to an extensive history of unsuccessful treatment (Bachler et al, 2016; Zoon et al, 2020), establishing a good working alliance between clients and therapists is considered crucial for success (Bachler et al, 2016; Escudero & Friedlander, 2017). The present study therefore also investigates if the working alliance predicts therapy outcome.…”

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“…In ISMFT, the development of a constructive therapeutic working alliance is considered crucial for success (Overbeek et al, 2021). With multi‐stressed families, establishing a constructive therapeutic alliance is particularly challenging, as those families often distrust and resist assistance due to an extensive history of psychiatric problems and inadequate treatment (Bachler et al, 2016; Escudero & Friedlander, 2017; Zoon et al, 2020). The multi‐family approach combined with a solution‐focused framework in ISMFT aims to overcome this hurdle, as it specifically focuses on the therapist refraining from a position of authoritative power and developing a positive and stimulating therapeutic alliance (Lloyd & Dallos, 2006, 2008), very similar to Madsen's collaborative therapy model (Madsen, 2007).…”

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Intensive specialised multi‐family therapy for multi‐stressed families: Therapeutic alliance as predictor for effectiveness

Beek

Hessen

Levelt

et al. 2023

Journal of Family Therapy

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The effectiveness of intense specialised multi-family therapy (ISMFT) for 111 multi-stressed families, and the therapeutic alliance as a possible predictor of outcome, were examined. A repeated measures design was used, where changes in all ISMFT phases (preparation, multi-family therapy and follow-up) were assessed and compared for both mothers and fathers. Evidence was found for improved family functioning after the therapy period, which was maintained at 3 months follow-up, although the multi-stressed families still functioned in the problematic range. The therapy did however not decrease parenting stress, or did so only temporarily.

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Bidirectional relationships between parenting stress and child behavior problems in multi‐stressed, single‐mother families: A cross‐lagged panel model

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Investigations on the bidirectional relationships between parenting stress and child behavior problems are important to inform intervention strategies; however, prior research has provided inconsistent findings. Using a national sample of multi-stressed single-mother families from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study, the present study examined the bidirectional relationships between maternal parenting stress and children's behavioral problems spanning from early childhood through adolescence at the child's ages 3, 5, 9, and 15. Reciprocal transactions were found between parenting stress and behavior problems in early childhood between the ages 3 and 5. From age 5 to age 15, our findings also suggest that children's behavior problems at an earlier time point predict mothers' parenting stress at a later time point. Unexpectedly, the lagged effects of parenting stress on child behavior problems in school ages were not significant in our sampled data. Early childhood interventions should address mitigating both parenting stress and their toddlers' behavior problems. During middle childhood and adolescence, interventions to directly address children's behavior problems are critical both to the well-being of mothers and to assist in the reduction in levels of behavior problems.

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Disadvantaged, Multi-Stressed Families Adrift in a Sea of Professional Helpers

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

Validation of the Engagement, Perseverance, Optimism, Connectedness, and Happiness Measure in Adolescents from Multistressed Families: Using First- and Second-Order Confirmatory Factor Analysis Models

Validation of the Engagement, Perseverance, Optimism, Connectedness, and Happiness Measure in Adolescents from Multistressed Families: Using First- and Second-Order Confirmatory Factor Analysis Models

Intensive specialised multi‐family therapy for multi‐stressed families: Therapeutic alliance as predictor for effectiveness

Bidirectional relationships between parenting stress and child behavior problems in multi‐stressed, single‐mother families: A cross‐lagged panel model

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