Back to Search
Start Over
A follow-up study of the "Lighthouse" mentalization-based parenting program: Mentalization as a mediator of change.
- Source :
-
Clinical Child Psychology & Psychiatry . Jul2024, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p867-881. 15p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
-
Abstract
- This paper reports follow-up findings for an Mentalization based treatment (MBT) parenting intervention delivered to a community mental health sample. Parents completed the 12-week version of the Lighthouse Parenting Program (LPP) and were evaluated on parenting practices, parent-child relationships, parental mental health indicators, and child problem behaviour levels. We evaluated the extent to which improvements in mentalizing at follow-up mediated changes in parenting, parental adjustment, mental health, and child outcomes. Results included a reduction in parental coercive behaviours and child problems, improved parent-child relationship, and better parental psychological adjustment and mental health. Improvement in self-focused mentalizing were observed. Self-focused mentalizing mediated the changes in most outcomes from baseline to 3-month follow-up. These results provide strong preliminary evidence that the LPP improves parent and child outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PREVENTION of child abuse
*PSYCHOTHERAPY
*MENTALIZATION
*RESEARCH funding
*PARENT-child relationships
*QUESTIONNAIRES
*PARENT attitudes
*FAMILY relations
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation
*BEHAVIOR disorders in children
*LONGITUDINAL method
*PRE-tests & post-tests
*DATA analysis software
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13591045
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Clinical Child Psychology & Psychiatry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177990847
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/13591045231220965