Parent and Teen Engagement in Pediatric Health Services Research Training

Engagement in child protective services: Parent perceptions of worker skills

Group parent training with immigrant chinese families: enhancing engagement and augmenting skills training.

Parent training (PT) is an evidence-based treatment for reducing and preventing child conduct problems and abusive parenting. However, questions have been raised about the dissemination of PT to culturally diverse families who hold different views on childrearing. Group PT was applied in two Chinese immigrant families illustrating strategies for addressing potential cultural barriers. The Incre...

Parent-teen communication about sexual topics.

This study examined parent-teen communication about sexual topics in matched samples of 666 mother-teen and 510 father-teen pairs in the US. Parents and their 8th- through 12th-grade children completed parallel surveys that assessed demographic, relationship, and attitudinal variables hypothesized to be associated with sexual communication. Logistic regression analyses were used to determine ...

Promoting an ethic of engagement in pediatric palliative care research

BACKGROUND This paper defends the ethical and empirical significance of direct engagement with terminally ill children and adolescents in PPC research on health-related quality of life. Clinical trials and other forms of health research have resulted in tremendous progress for improving clinical outcomes among children and adolescents diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Less attention ha...

Ethnic Differences in Engagement in Parent Training: Patterns of Attendance, Attitudes, and Impact on Treatment Outcomes

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