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- Title
Working with families to promote healthy adolescent development.
- Authors
Toumbourou, John W.; Gregg, M. Elizabeth
- Abstract
In recent years a sea change has occurred in thinking about interventions for families with adolescent children. A range of intervention strategies has been proposed, including parent education, adolescent education, family therapy, and community change. These associations arise, in part, from a higher likelihood sole-parent families will experience traumatic conflict around family breakdown, lack of supervision due to the parent's work pressures, and limited family income resulting in higher exposure to community risk factors, which demonstrated reduced parental drug use and improved family management, and the Strengthening Families Program, which demonstrated increased children's protective factors, reduced substance use in both adolescents and parents, and improved parenting behaviours are currently investigating the impact of an integrated multi-level secondary school intervention, resilient families, which incorporates communication training for students, an information night for parents, sequenced parent education groups, and brief family therapy.
- Subjects
PARENT-teenager relationships; TEENAGERS; DEVELOPMENTAL psychology; PARENTING; FAMILY conflict; FAMILY psychotherapy; DRUG abuse
- Publication
Family Matters, 2001, Issue 59, p54
- ISSN
1030-2646
- Publication type
Article