Strengthening Effective Parenting Practices Over the Long Term: Effects of a Preventive Intervention for Parentally Bereaved Families

Previous studies suggest that cognitive control training (CCT) shows potential as a preventive intervention for depression. In this study, the first to examine long-term preventive effects of CCT, we examined effects on (a) task-specific cognitive transfer at 1-year follow-up, (b) recurrence of depression, and (c) functioning over the course of a year. Each of 92 remitted depressed patients were randomly assigned to a CCT condition or an active control condition (ACT). Effects of training were monitored using weekly assessments of emotion regulation, cognitive complaints, depressive symptoms, and resilience (brief weekly questionnaire). At 1-year follow-up, participants completed a structured clinical interview, cognitive transfer task, and questionnaires. We observed task-specific cognitive transfer ( p < .001, d = 1.23) and lower recurrence rates in the CCT condition ( p = .04; odds ratio = 0.38). However, no long-term beneficial effects of training were observed on the weekly ratings of functioning, and groups did not differ in performance on the self-report questionnaires at 1-year follow-up.

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Long-Term Effects of a Family-Based Preventive Intervention on Parent--Child Relationships

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e631892009-001 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Melissa J. Hagan ◽

Jenn Tein ◽

Irwin N. Sandler ◽

Sharlene Wolchik ◽

Tim Ayers ◽

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Keyword(s):

Preventive Intervention ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

Family Based ◽

Parent Child Relationships ◽

Parent Child

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Reducing suicide risk in parentally bereaved youth through promoting effective parenting: testing a developmental cascade model

Development and Psychopathology ◽

10.1017/s0954579421001474 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Na Zhang ◽

Irwin Sandler ◽

Jenn-Yun Tein ◽

Sharlene Wolchik

Keyword(s):

Suicide Risk ◽

Preventive Intervention ◽

Parental Death ◽

At Risk Youth ◽

Emotion Suppression ◽

Effective Parenting ◽

Parentally Bereaved ◽

Increased Risk ◽

The Family

Abstract Children who experience parental death are at increased risk for suicide. The Family Bereavement Program (FBP) is an upstream preventive intervention for parentally bereaved families that was found to reduce suicide risk in parentally bereaved youth up to 6 and 15 years later. We tested whether FBP-induced improvements in effective parenting led to changes in multiple proximal factors that prior theory and research implicated in the cascading pathway to suicide risk, namely, aversive self-views, caregiver connectedness, peer connectedness, complicated grief, depressive symptoms, and emotion suppression. The sample was 244 bereaved youth and their surviving caregiver from 156 families. Families were randomized into the FBP (12 group-based sessions for parents, youth, and two joint sessions) or a literature control condition. Multimethod and multiinformant data were collected at baseline, posttest, 6-year and 15-year follow-up assessments. Results showed that program-induced improvements in effective parenting at posttest were associated with reduced aversive self-views and increased caregiver connectedness at the 6-year follow-up, and each mediator was in turn associated with reduced suicide risk at the 6- and 15-year follow-up. The mediated pathways via aversive self-views remained significant while controlling for caregiver connectedness. Self-related concepts may be important targets in upstream suicide prevention for at-risk youth.

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Long-term effects of a parenting preventive intervention on young adults’ painful feelings about divorce.

Journal of Family Psychology ◽

10.1037/fam0000325 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 31 (7) ◽

pp. 799-809 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Caroline Christopher ◽

Sharlene Wolchik ◽

Jenn-Yun Tein ◽

Colleen Carr ◽

Nicole E. Mahrer ◽

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Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Preventive Intervention ◽

Long Term Effects

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Life Review: Preventing Despair in Newly Relocated Nursing Home Residents Short- and Long-Term Effects

The International Journal of Aging and Human Development ◽

10.2190/a011-brxd-hafv-5nj6 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 47 (2) ◽

pp. 119-142 ◽

Cited By ~ 89

Author(s):

Barbara K. Haight ◽

Yvonne Michel ◽

Shirley Hendrix

Keyword(s):

Nursing Home ◽

Suicide Ideation ◽

Preventive Intervention ◽

Nursing Home Residents ◽

Well Being ◽

Life Review ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

Frail Elders ◽

One Year

Relocation to a nursing home places frail elders at risk for developing depression and suicide ideation. This study followed two hundred and fifty-six newly relocated nursing home residents for five years. Using a Solomon Four research design, participants were divided into four groups, two control and two experimental, one each with pretesting and all with posttesting. Participants in the control groups received a friendly visit and those in the experimental groups received the intervention of life review. Immediate short-term results showed the life review to be an effective preventive intervention for clinical depression ( p = .05). Additionally, when looking at long-term effects at one year, there were significant decreases in depression ( p = .05), hopelessness ( p = .01), and psychological well-being ( p = .02) with measurable increases in life satisfaction ( p = .08). These findings support the hypothesis that life review prevents despair in frail elders newly admitted to a nursing home.

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