Families and the Therapy of Antisocial and Delinquent Behavior

Tolan, Patrick H.; Mitchell, M. Ellen

doi:10.1300/j287v06n03_03

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“…increase, and a 2-week closing and posttest assessment. Methods were integrated from previous empirically proven interventions (e.g., J. F. Alexander & Parsons, 1982;Minuchin & Fishman, 1981;Patterson et al, 1991;Szapocznik, Kurtines, Santisteban, & Rio, 1990) to enhance five characteristics of families empirically linked to antisocial behavior risk (Tolan et al, 1986;Tolan & Mitchell, 1990). Families were seen in multiple-family groups for 1 week of each 3-week unit and by themselves in the other two sessions.…”

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Evaluating process in child and family interventions: Aggression prevention as an example.

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Hanish²,

McKay³

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Journal of Family Psychology

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This article reports on 2 studies designed to develop and validate a set of measures for use in evaluating processes of child and family interventions. In Study 1 responses from 187 families attending an outpatient clinic for child behavior problems were factor analyzed to identify scales, consistent across sources: Alliance (Satisfactory Relationship with Interventionist and Program Satisfaction), Parenting Skill Attainment, Child Cooperation During Session, Child Prosocial Behavior, and Child Aggressive Behavior. Study 2 focused on patterns of scale scores among 78 families taking part in a 22-week preventive intervention designed to affect family relationships, parenting, and child antisocial and prosocial behaviors. The factor structure identified in Study 1 was replicated. Scale construct validity was demonstrated through across-source convergence, sensitivity to intervention change, and ability to discriminate individual differences. Path analysis validated the scales' utility in explaining key aspects of the intervention process. Implications for evaluating processes in family interventions are discussed.

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“…It may be that the alliance with the parent is the critical component (Miller & Prinz, 1990). The child's alliance may be a superfluous consideration, conflict with the parental alliance, or be dependent on the parental alliance (Tolan & Mitchell, 1990). Unfortunately, without adequate measures, these hypotheses cannot be tested.…”

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Evaluating process in child and family interventions: Aggression prevention as an example.

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“…The third model hypothesized was that the Beliefs scales (Family Beliefs and Shared Deviant Values) represented an underlying construct akin to Reiss's family paradigm (Reiss, 1981), and therefore Beliefs underlies other family processes. Our theorized model was that there are two related but distinct primary domains of family influence: (a) family cohesion as the base for other aspects of daily interaction patterns (communication, support, organization); and (b) beliefs and values and the relative level of agreement about these within the family (Gorman-Smith et al, 1996;Tolan & McKay, 1996;Tolan & Mitchell, 1989). We used LISREL structural equation modeling (Hoyle, 1995) analyses to test the relative fit of the models.…”

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Assessment of family relationship characteristics: A measure to explain risk for antisocial behavior and depression among urban youth.

Tolan

Gorman‐Smith

Huesmann³

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Psychological Assessment

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T\vo large samples of urban families were used to develop and cross-validate an assessment model and a measure to tap basic family processes and risk among diverse ethnic groups. Six scales (Cohesion, Beliefs About Family, Deviant Beliefs, Organization, Support, and Communication) produced a 3-dimension higher order factor model (Cohesion, Structure, and Beliefs). Tests support reliance on composite family scoring. Most scales and each higher order factor relate to depression, and aggression. Relations vary little by age, ethnicity, marital status of parent, or family income. Implications for family assessment methodology and risk models are discussed.

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“…Accordingly, children from enmeshed families are thought to be at risk for developing a wide array of psychological~e.g., internalizing, externalizing! problems~Kerr, 2003;Tolan & Mitchell, 1989!. According to the emotional security hypothesis, child concern about security in the face of marital difficulties is one mechanism that may account for links between enmeshed family processes and child psychological symptoms.…”

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Pathways between profiles of family functioning, child security in the interparental subsystem, and child psychological problems

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Cummings

Winter

2004

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This study was designed to delineate pathways between systems profiles of family functioning, children's emotional insecurity in the interparental relationship, and their psychological adjustment in a sample of 221 children and their parents. Consistent with family systems theory, cluster analyses conducted with assessments of marital, coparental, and parent-child functioning indicated that families fit into one of four profiles:~a! cohesive families, characterized by warmth, affection, and flexible well-defined boundaries in family relationships;~b! disengaged families, reflected in high levels of adversity and low levels of support across family subsystems;~c! enmeshed families, evidenced by high levels of discord and weak maintenance of relationship boundaries in the family unit; and~d! adequate families, defined by elevated parental psychological control within a larger family context of low discord and high warmth. In comparison to children in cohesive families, children in enmeshed and disengaged families exhibited greater signs of insecurity in the interparental relationship concurrently and internalizing and externalizing symptoms both concurrently and 1 year later. Structural equation models revealed that a latent, multimethod measure of insecurity in the interparental relationship partially mediated associations between family enmeshment and disengagement and children's psychological symptoms 1 year later. Results are discussed in relation to how they inform and refine a family-wide model of the emotional security hypothesis. Family systems theory has challenged scientists to expand beyond understanding child development and psychopathology solely in the context of parent-child relationship dynam-ics~Minuchin, 1985!. Guided by the principle of holism, family systems theory asserts that pathways linking parenting dynamics with child functioning are fully understood in the context of the collective experiences in the

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Families and the Therapy of Antisocial and Delinquent Behavior

Cited by 23 publications

References 19 publications

Evaluating process in child and family interventions: Aggression prevention as an example.

Evaluating process in child and family interventions: Aggression prevention as an example.

Assessment of family relationship characteristics: A measure to explain risk for antisocial behavior and depression among urban youth.

Pathways between profiles of family functioning, child security in the interparental subsystem, and child psychological problems

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