1. Emotion regulation during conflict interaction after a systemic music intervention: Understanding changes for parents with a trauma history and their adolescent.
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Colegrove, Vivienne M., Havighurst, Sophie S., and Kehoe, Christiane E.
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EDUCATION of parents , *PSYCHOLOGY of adult child abuse victims , *ANALYSIS of covariance , *CHI-squared test , *CONFIDENCE intervals , *CONFLICT management , *EMOTIONS , *FISHER exact test , *MUSIC therapy , *NONVERBAL communication , *PARENT-child relationships , *PSYCHOLOGY of parents , *PSYCHOTHERAPY , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *STATISTICAL sampling , *SELF-evaluation , *SELF-management (Psychology) , *STATISTICS , *T-test (Statistics) , *TEMPERAMENT , *VIDEO recording , *PILOT projects , *DATA analysis , *QUANTITATIVE research , *SOCIOECONOMIC factors , *RANDOMIZED controlled trials , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *MANN Whitney U Test - Abstract
Introduction: For parents who have experienced childhood maltreatment, parenting an adolescent may trigger memories of abuse or neglect, intensifying parent-adolescent conflict. This paper extends an earlier report of outcomes from a pilot randomised controlled trial (RCT) of Tuning Relationships with Music™, an intervention for parent-adolescent dyads where parents have a trauma history and dyads are experiencing conflict, in order to look systemically at dyads' emotion regulation during their musical representation of nonverbal conflict interaction (NCI). Method: The RCT randomly allocated 26 parent-adolescent dyads into intervention or control conditions, and analysed dyads' self-report and observation measures completed at baseline and 4-month post-baseline follow-up. Aims of the current paper were (1) to examine relationships between parents' trauma history, parent-adolescent conflict, parents' reactivity and responsiveness, and dyads' emotion regulation, consistency and predictability during NCI; and (2) whether a systemic music intervention focused on nonverbal communication (NVC) and emotion regulation would change the dynamics of dyads' relational conflict. Results: Higher parents' childhood betrayal trauma and adolescent-reported conflict scores were correlated with predictable NVC sequences whilst dyads were emotionally dysregulated, and parents' reactivity was correlated with dyads' inconsistent NVC during NCI. Post-intervention dyads were more emotionally regulated, consistent and predictable during NCI, reported lower levels of conflict and showed increased parent emotional responsiveness and reduced reactivity. Discussion: Findings indicate that where parents have experienced childhood maltreatment, conflictual parent-adolescent dyads may benefit from intervention focusing on skills that promote emotionally regulated, predictable and consistent NVC during conflict interactions. Trials with a larger sample are warranted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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