Emotion socialization parenting interventions targeting emotional competence in young children: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

England-Mason, Gillian; Andrews, Krysta; Atkinson, Leslie; González, Andrea

doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2023.102252

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“…The current review has notable implications for translational programs. In recent years, many prevention and intervention programs have emerged that target parental ERSBs (see England-Mason et al, 2023, for a review). These programs consider that improving parental ERSBs may lead to downstream positive effects for youth development, such as reduced risk for emotion dysregulation and psychopathology.…”

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“…Finally, there is a need for longitudinal research on ERSBs themselves. It is important to know whether ERSBs (a) fluctuate throughout parenthood along with associated processes (e.g., self-regulation, children's need for emotional scaffolding), (b) change systematically over time (e.g., corresponding to developmental shifts in children), or (c) are relatively stable constructs outside of interventions, which do appear to be able to manipulate ERSBs (see England-Mason et al, 2023, for a review).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Given how closely tied ERSBs are to youth psychological adjustment, many translational programs target parental ERSBs (see England-Mason et al, 2023, for a review). Still, to effectively improve ERSBs, it is useful to understand what mechanisms underlie, or are associated with and maintaining, ERSBs.…”

Section: Emotion-related Socialization Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Parental self-regulation and engagement in emotion socialization: A systematic review.

Edler,

Valentino

2024

Psychological Bulletin

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Parental self-regulation and engagement in emotion socialization: A systematic review.

Edler,

Valentino

2024

Psychological Bulletin

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“…As such, sensitive relationship enhancement is a good candidate for a parent-based intervention targeting both externalizing and internalizing problems. Second, emotion socialization theory emphasizes how parents may help children with their emotions through emotional coaching (24,25). Research suggests that emotion focussed interventions are effective for improving child emotional competence (25) and preventing and reducing child externalizing behaviors (26), and the effect on child symptoms has been found to be mediated by pareting practices (27).…”

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Study protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial of Supportive Parents – Coping Kids (SPARCK) - a Transdiagnostic and Personalized Parent Training Intervention to Prevent Childhood Mental Health Problems

Tømmerås,

Backer-Grøndahl,

Høstmælingen

et al. 2024

Preprint

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Background: To meet the scientific and political call for effective prevention of child and youth mental health problems and associated long-term consequences, we have co-created, tested, and optimized a transdiagnostic preventive parent-training intervention, Supportive parents – coping kids (SPARCK), together with and for the municipal preventive frontline services. The target group of SPARCK is parents of children between 4 and 12 years who display symptoms of anxiety, depression, and/or behavioral problems, that is, indicated prevention. The intervention consists of components from various empirically supported interventions representing different theorical models on parent-child interactions and child behavior and psychopathology (i.e., behavioral management interventions, attachment theory, emotion socialization theory, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and family accommodation intervention). The content and target strategies of SPARCK are tailored to the needs of the families and children, and the manual suggests how the target strategies may be personalized and combined throughout the maximum 12 sessions of the intervention. The aim of this project is to investigate the effectiveness of SPARCK on child symptoms, parenting practices, and parent and child stress hormone levels, in addition to later use of specialized services compared with usual care (UC; eg. active comparison group). Methods: We describe a randomized controlled effectiveness trial in the frontline services of child welfare, health, school health and school psychological counselling services in 24 Norwegian municipalities. It is a two-armed parallel group randomized controlled effectiveness and superiority trial with assessment of key variables at pre-, post-, and six-month follow-up. 252 families will be included, and randomly allocated to SPARCK or UC. Discussion: The current study will contribute with knowledge on potential effects of a preventive transdiagnostic parent-training intervention when compared with UC. Our primary objective is to innovate frontline services with a usable, flexible, and effective intervention for prevention of childhood mental health problems to promote equity in access to care for families and children across a heterogeneous service landscape characterized by variations in available resources, personnel, and end user symptomatology. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NTCT05800522

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“…Caregivers play an important role in modeling emotion regulation and influencing the development of their child's emotion processing and regulation skills (England-Mason et al, 2023; This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

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Outpatient treatment of children and adolescents using emotion-focused family therapy (EFFT) caregiver workshops: A pre- to postintervention evaluation.

Goveas,

Duku,

Sabey

et al. 2024

Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice

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Caregiver participation in their child’s treatment for mental health difficulties can lead to improvements in the child’s emotion processing and mental health symptoms. Emotion-focused family therapy (EFFT) is a transdiagnostic treatment model designed to help caregivers actively support their child’s treatment. Three of EFFT’s aims are to (1) increase caregiver’s confidence in their ability to enact strategies supporting recovery, (2) improve caregiver’s awareness about their own reactions to their child’s needs, and (3) provide caregivers with behavioral and emotion-focused skills to support their child at home. We examined the short-term impact of group-based manualized 2-day EFFT caregiver workshops delivered in person from 2017 to 2020 to 463 caregivers of children and adolescents seeking community outpatient services. Before and after the workshop, caregivers completed questionnaires assessing caregiver self-efficacy, emotion blocks, reflective functioning, perceptions of their child’s emotion regulation and mental health challenges. Quantitative and qualitative workshop satisfaction data were collected. Accounting for caregiver clustering, effects from paired t tests for differences in mean scores before and immediately after the intervention revealed the following: (a) increases in caregiver self-efficacy (d = 1.23) although internal consistency of scale scores was low in our sample; (b) small improvements in caregiver perceptions of the child’s mental health difficulties (d = .26), particularly externalizing (d = .32) and conduct (d = .36) problems; and (c) small improvements in caregiver perceptions of their child’s negative affect and changeable/extreme moods (d = .23). These results, combined with high levels of caregiver satisfaction, suggest EFFT caregiver workshops may be an efficient, cost and resource effective intervention option for caregivers of children experiencing mental health difficulties.

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Emotion socialization parenting interventions targeting emotional competence in young children: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Cited by 12 publications

References 78 publications

Parental self-regulation and engagement in emotion socialization: A systematic review.

Parental self-regulation and engagement in emotion socialization: A systematic review.

Study protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial of Supportive Parents – Coping Kids (SPARCK) - a Transdiagnostic and Personalized Parent Training Intervention to Prevent Childhood Mental Health Problems

Outpatient treatment of children and adolescents using emotion-focused family therapy (EFFT) caregiver workshops: A pre- to postintervention evaluation.

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