Parents

Purpose: Considerable evidence documents the linkages between higher levels of parental knowledge about youth activities and positive youth outcomes.

Parental knowledge of youth's behaviors is an important aspect of childrearing. To better understand the impact of consistent parental knowledge, researchers examined parents' reports of day-to-day knowledge of youth's activities and behaviors.

Behavioral parent training (BPT) includes a variety of evidence-based treatments with diverse techniques to alter parent behavior. Parent_Child Interaction Therapy is an innovative BPT with its use of in vivo feedback (i.e., ‘‘coaching’’) during parent_child interactions.

Parent educators use many different strategies in order to increase positive parenting behavior. This study investigated the use of in-the-moment coaching (i.e., coaching offered during parent-child interactions) for mothers with young children.

Research indicates that parents’ methods of emotion socialization impact the development of their children’s emotion expressivity, which, in turn, is implicated in the emergence of internalizing symptoms.

Parent responses to children's emotional expressions play a large role in the way that children learn to regulate and cope with emotions. Families in the current study reported on child emotion regulation and depressive symptoms and parent responses to child expression of anger and sadness.

Deployment separation and reunifications are salient contexts that directly impact effective family functioning and parenting for military fathers. Yet, we know very little about determinants of postdeployed father involvement and effective parenting.

Post-deployed fathers' who served in the National Guard and Reserves, involvement and effective parenting were examined. Pre-intervention data were used from fathers participating in the After Deployment, Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT) randomized control trial.

Although sexual behaviors have been extensively studied among youth in general, they have been relatively understudied among military-dependent youth (MDY).

Among the relatively understudied military-dependent youth population the prevalence of sexual behaviors and the association between these behaviors and unique military stressors such as parental deployment and multiple relocations were analyzed.