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Principal Investigators: Lauren
Brookman-Frazee
Funding: University of California, San Diego
This study is a research supplement to Dr. Ann Garland’s
NIMH-funded study investigating the consistencies between
empirically supported treatments for children with behavioral
disorders and “real life” community mental health
treatment (http://www.casrc.org/projects/PRAC/index.shtml).
This study seeks to integrate the research on parent education
and parent training from both the disability and mental health
literature. Studying how parents are empowered through parent
education programs is one method for integrating these areas
of research. Although there is considerable research demonstrating
the efficacy of parent education programs for children with
a variety of diagnoses, there is little research on how to
most effectively empower parents through parent education
programs. This study aims to investigate the parent education
process in community mental health treatments for children
with a broad range of behavioral disorders. The study will
extract and analyze specific measures contained within existing
data of the PRAC study and collect additional measures related
to parent empowerment and engagement in the treatment process.
The goal of this research is to examine the common factors
involved in empowering and engaging parents in community mental
health treatments for children with a variety of disorders
and presenting problems. The specific aims of the study are
to:
1) Characterize the implementation of parent education in
community clinics with disruptive behavior disorders and examine
how strategies differ according to child characteristics.
2) Examine the relationship between parent education treatment
process and parent engagement and empowerment.
3) Examine parents’ experiences of parent education
strategies and their relationships to parent empowerment.
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