Enhancing Family Engagement in Interventions for Mental Health Problems in Youth

Herman, Keith C.; Borden, Lindsay; Hsu, Chinghui; Schultz, Tia R.; Carney, Megan Strawsine; Brooks, Connie; Reinke, Wendy M.

doi:10.1080/0886571x.2011.569434

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“…Given that previous research has shown that lack of family involvement can be a major barrier to participation in mental health prevention, community acceptance and adoption of mental health prevention and intervention programs, and the ultimate outcomes of intervention efforts (Herman et al, 2011;Ingoldsby, 2010;Karver et al, 2006;Lee, August, Bloomquist, Mathy, & Realmuto, 2006), this project sought to embrace the family voice by giving community members the opportunity to become collaborative partners in developing suicide prevention educational materials for parents and families.…”

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confidence: 99%

It’s Time to Talk About It: Utilizing a Community-Based Research Approach to Develop a Family Guide for Youth Suicide Prevention

Gryglewicz

Elzy

Brown

et al. 2014

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Utilizing principles from family-driven care and community-based research, community members and researchers collaborated to uncover the experiences, perceptions, and needs of families whose children had been impacted by mental illness and suicide. Using a flexible and iterative process involving in-depth qualitative interviews, four themes emerged: (a) the need for greater awareness about youth suicide; (b) the need to provide clear and direct steps to obtain help for at-risk youths; (c) the need to learn how to locate and access resources to seek help and overcome barriers to care; and (d) the importance of involving and empowering families to get involved in the design and increased utilization of treatment services and suicide prevention efforts. Further thematic content analysis revealed specific content areas that served as the foundation for the creation of a family-focused guide on youth suicide prevention. Preliminary findings with community stakeholders suggest that the family guide, It's Time to Talk About it, is a useful and motivational resource that enhances awareness on how to prevent youth suicide and how families can become more involved in treatment and advocacy efforts. This paper provides an example of how to engage and partner with community participants throughout the stages of planning, developing, implementing, and disseminating a community-based suicide prevention effort.

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It’s Time to Talk About It: Utilizing a Community-Based Research Approach to Develop a Family Guide for Youth Suicide Prevention

Gryglewicz

Elzy

Brown

et al. 2014

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“…While our study shows that the juridical setting of the JJI, compared to other residential settings, brings along different factors that influence parental participation, our study also confirms that several factors play a similar role. For example, as previously found in other residential settings, longer distance to home, lack of transportation, negative previous experiences, parental burdens, and competing demands (Baker & Blacher, 2002;De Boer, Cameron, & Frensch, 2007;Garfinkel, 2010;Herman et al, 2011;Knecht & Hargrave, 2002;Kruzich et al, 2003;Lyman & Campbell, 1996;Sharrock et al, 2013) also negatively influence parental participation in JJIs.…”

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Parental Participation in Juvenile Justice Institutions: Parents’ Perspectives on Facilitating and Hindering Factors

Simons

Vaart

Vermeiren

et al. 2019

International Journal of Forensic Mental Health

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Background: Participation of parents during their adolescent's detention is important for achieving positive treatment outcomes for youths and their families. To improve parental participation, insight in facilitating or hindering factors is necessary. To this end, we studied the perspectives of parents of adolescents detained in two juvenile justice institutions in the Netherlands. Methods: Data were collected from 19 purposefully selected parents through semistructured interviewing. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and imported into ATLAS.ti where data were coded and analyzed. Results: Parental participation is influenced by a variety of factors that could be categorized based on the following themes: (1) practical facilitating or obstructing factors; (2) parentrelated emotional and mental factors; and (3) factors concerning issues of the parentadolescent relationship. Discussion: Insight into the factors which facilitate and obstruct participation might help JJI staff understand differences in parental participation. This may enable them to tailor solutions which would improve parental participation during their adolescent's detention.

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“…Actively engaging families in interventions for youth is an ongoing challenge (Herman et al, ). The level of parental participation might be improved when staff members start to understand which factors influence parents' participation.…”

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Determinants of parental participation in Family‐centered Care in Juvenile Justice Institutions

Simons

Mulder

Breuk

et al. 2018

Child & Family Social Work

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This study assessed if staff members of two juvenile justice institutions in the Netherlands were able to motivate parents to participate in a programme of Familycentred Care. For research purposes, parents were considered to participate if they (a) attended the family meeting, (b) visited their son during regular visiting hours, and (c) participated in measurements. Study participants were the parents of 139 short-term detained male adolescents. The family meeting was attended by 47% of the parents, most adolescents (74.1%) were visited at least once by their parents, and 42% of the parents participated in measurements. Several factors influenced the parental participation rate variables, although effect sizes were small. The more parenting problems parents faced, the less likely they were to attend the family meeting. Parents with a job visited their son more often than unemployed parents.Finally, a longer stay of the adolescent and Dutch ethnicity predicted more parental participation in measurements. Our study showed that parental participation is feasible. However, the participation rates in the two years after the first steps of implementation were eligible for improvement. More implementation experience where staff could fully benefit from training and coaching in family-centred work could substantially increase parental participation rates.

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Enhancing Family Engagement in Interventions for Mental Health Problems in Youth

Cited by 19 publications

References 39 publications

It’s Time to Talk About It: Utilizing a Community-Based Research Approach to Develop a Family Guide for Youth Suicide Prevention

It’s Time to Talk About It: Utilizing a Community-Based Research Approach to Develop a Family Guide for Youth Suicide Prevention

Parental Participation in Juvenile Justice Institutions: Parents’ Perspectives on Facilitating and Hindering Factors

Determinants of parental participation in Family‐centered Care in Juvenile Justice Institutions

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