The family check-up with high-risk young adolescents: Preventing early-onset substance use by parent monitoring

Dishion, Thomas J.; Nelson, Sarah E.; Kavanagh, Kathryn

doi:10.1016/s0005-7894(03)80035-7

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“…These peer factors and others have been found in prior studies to be related to youth alcohol use (e.g., Barnes et al, 1995;Duncan et al, 1994;Hawkins et al, 1992). Since peer social reinforcement is an influential force in an adolescent's life, it makes sense that youth will be more likely to engage in deviant behaviors such as alcohol use when their peers engage in or encourage such behaviors (Dishion et al, 2003;Guilamo-Ramos et al, 2004). Future studies are needed to further examine the effects of peer and family influences on early adolescent alcohol use, particularly on changes or growth in alcohol use during pre-adolescence and early adolescence.…”

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confidence: 79%

Alcohol use from ages 9 to 16: A cohort-sequential latent growth model

Duncan

Strycker

2006

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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This study examined alcohol use from pre-adolescence to mid-adolescence and determined the influence of hypothesized covariates on changes in alcohol use rates during this developmental period. The sample comprised 405 randomly recruited youth from three age cohorts (9, 11, and 13 years), assessed annually for 4 years. Youth were 48.4% female, 50.4% African-American, and 49.6% White. A cohort-sequential latent growth model was employed which modeled alcohol use (use vs. non-use) from ages 9-16 years, accounting for demographic variables of gender, race, parent marital status, and family economic status. Covariates of alcohol use included parent alcohol use, family alcohol problems, family cohesion, parent supervision, peer deviance, peer alcohol use, and peer encouragement of alcohol use. Results showed that proportions of alcohol users increased steadily from ages 9-16 years. Significant covariates were found on the intercept and slope. Being female and higher levels of parent alcohol use were associated with higher initial rates of alcohol use whereas greater friends' encouragement of alcohol use was related to lower initial rates of alcohol use (intercept). Alternatively, more peer deviance and friends' encouragement of alcohol use was related to an increase in alcohol use rates from ages 9-16 years (slope), as was being White and from a single-parent family.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 79%

Alcohol use from ages 9 to 16: A cohort-sequential latent growth model

Duncan

Strycker

2006

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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“…Additional support for the importance of parents' involvement in the monitoring process, above and beyond the contribution of adolescents' disclosure, has been provided by back-translational evidence. In fact, Dishion and colleagues [12] showed that random assignment to the Family Check-Up, a family centered intervention targeting parenting skills, led to improvements in observed parental monitoring practices, which mediated reductions in youth substance use [12]. While the exact relations between the different aspects of parental monitoring remain to be established, it is clear that parental involvement in the monitoring process is critical to the prevention or reduction of behavior problems in adolescents.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…An observational measure was used to assess parental monitoring in an intervention study, and improvements in parental monitoring were found to mediate reductions in substance use [12]. This measure was based on videotaped parent-youth conversations during which they discussed the youths' time spent with peers without an adult present.…”

Section: Measurement Of Parental Constructsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Translational research on parenting of adolescents: Linking theory to valid observation measures for family centered prevention and treatment

Chiapa

Morris

Véronneau

et al. 2016

Behav. Med. Pract. Policy Res.

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Parental monitoring and family problem solving are key parenting practices targeted in evidence-based interventions targeting adolescents and families, yet the constructs have yet to be validated across ethnic groups. The study's objective was to promote translational research by evaluating convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of the two constructs at age 16-17 years through the use of multiple observation indicators and methods and as a function of ethnic status. Videotaped parentadolescent family interactions were coded for monitoring and problem solving in a sample of 714 European American (EA; 59.2 %) and African American (AA; 40.8 %) males (53.8 %) and females (46.2 %). Structural equation models established convergent and discriminant validity of parental monitoring and problem solving among parent, youth, and observation measures for AA and EA families. Low levels of parent monitoring was highly predictive of antisocial behavior in EA and in AA youths (p<0.001) and moderately predicted future drug use (p<0.001) for both groups at age 18-19. Poorer family problem solving was also moderately predictive of antisocial behavior (p<0.001 for EA; p<0.05 for AA) and drug use (p<0.01 for EA; p<0.05 for AA) at age 18-19. These findings suggest that interventions targeting parental monitoring and family problem solving can be reliably evaluated through various measurement methods and that such interventions are of value in efforts to prevent and treat problem behavior in adolescence. These family processes are readily observable in videotaped family interaction tasks in both EA and AA families.

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“…Interventions following the "check-up" are tailored to the family's particular strengths and needs and may include more intensive parenting support designed to enhance parents' skills in positive behavior support, healthy limit-setting, and relationship-building. Follow up studies of children and adolescents whose families participated in FCU report increased school readiness, improved emotional and behavioral functioning and reduced substance use [33,34,35]. There is also preliminary evidence that FCU may have an indirect effect on later weight gain and obesity [36,37].…”

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confidence: 99%