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- Title
Technology Matters: Digital micro interventions to support parenting: Evaluating time out apps.
- Authors
Abdelhameed, Farah; Hodson, Nathan; Woods, Peter
- Abstract
Digital interventions to support parenting skills are popular but engagement can be low. Digital micro interventions such as apps targeting specific aspects of parenting are a novel development with the potential to overcome this challenge. Time out is an evidence‐based component of many parenting skills training programmes and is an appropriate target for digital micro intervention. We describe the eight requirements of high‐quality time out according to the literature and how these can be supported by an app. Searches of the App Store, Google Play, and Alexa Skills in the UK identified six apps designed to support time out. Current time out apps all promoted consistency, but they all risked low‐quality time out through inappropriate initiation, duration, and termination. Professionals in child and adolescent mental health should explore the details of any digital micro interventions being used by parents for time out and provide appropriate counselling. We recommend that all future digital micro interventions in this area should incorporate evidence‐based guidance.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; PARENTING education; SOCIAL support; DIGITAL technology; MOBILE apps; TIME; MENTAL health; BEHAVIOR disorders; SOCIAL skills
- Publication
Child & Adolescent Mental Health, 2023, Vol 28, Issue 2, p330
- ISSN
1475-357X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/camh.12632