Abstract The Treatment Programme for Families with Children in Andalusia is fundamentally aimed at promoting the integral development of children and adolescents through the strengthening of parental ...competences and family preservation strategies. In the last 20 years, this programme has been applied to over 75 000 families, involving about 150 000 children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to analyse the effects of this family intervention programme on the quality of life and behaviour problems of the children. This quasi‐experimental and longitudinal study had two non‐randomized groups (intervention group and comparison group) and two evaluation measures (pre‐treatment and post‐treatment). The intervention group was constituted by 297 families (540 children) who had participated in the programme. The comparison group consisted of 95 families (138 children) at a similar risk level, although these families had not participated in the programme. The results showed a significant improvement in the quality of life of the children of the families that belonged to the intervention group, which was significantly greater than the evolution detected in the children of the families that belonged to the comparison group. The results of efficacy and efficiency of this type of practice constitute a quality criterion of evidence‐based programmes and a requirement to maintain public investment.
•Parental competences were related to lower levels of anxious-depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation.•Parental competences were associated to higher levels of adolescents’ mindfulness.•Mindfulness ...mediated the association between parental competences and anxious-depressive symptoms.•A double mediation effect of mindfulness and anxious-depressive symptoms on the association between parental competence and suicidal ideation was found.•The overall associations were equivalent for boys and girls.
Anxious-depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation are common phenomena during adolescence. Ample research has evidenced that certain parental competences (i.e., parental warmth, autonomy support, and family communication) play a key role in the prevention of both internalizing problems. However, the mechanisms that explain the preventive effects of these parental competences are little understood. For those mechanisms to be explained, the present study aimed at investigating the mediating role of adolescent mindfulness on the association between parental competences, anxious-depressive symptoms, and suicidal ideation. It was also explored whether these relations were (dis)similar across gender. A total of 1405 adolescents (53.1% girls) aged between 12 and 17 years (M = 14.79, SD = 1.54) participated in the research. Participants completed a self-report questionnaire during school hours. Structural equation models analysis showed that the association between parental competences and anxious-depressive symptoms was partially mediated by adolescent mindfulness. Meanwhile, the association between parental competences and suicidal ideation was mediated through a double indirect effect via mindfulness and anxious-depressive symptoms. Gender did not moderate previous associations. This study offers evidence of the contribution of mindfulness in explaining the processes that underlie the relationship between parental competences and certain internalizing problems in adolescents. Further, these findings emphasize the need for future interventions to foster both positive parenting and adolescents’ mindfulness to prevent anxious-depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation.
: the aim of this study was to explore parental competences and stress levels in the mothers of children with autism in relation to the mothers of neurotypical children.
: the study used the Parental ...Competence Test and the PSS-10 scale to assess the intensity of stress related to one's own life situation over the past month. Forty mothers of children with ASD (
= 20) and neurotypical children (
= 20) participated in the study.
: the mothers of children with ASD showed higher levels of stress (
= 0.0002). The mothers of neurotypical children achieved higher scores in parental competences (r = -0.49). The competence of mothers of children with ASD was correlated with rigour (r = 0.50), permissiveness (r = -0.60), overprotectiveness (r = 0.71), and helplessness (r = -0.77).
: mothers of children with autism demonstrate lower parental competences than mothers of neurotypical children. Mothers of children with autism are less rigorous but more permissive, overprotective, and helpless. They tend to become heavily involved with their child. An overprotective attitude and greater tolerance for antisocial behaviours among parents of children with ASDs protect them from excessive stress.
This paper presents results of a research that arose from the interest of studying the phenomenon of forced displacement as an adversity, which can be overcome because human beings have the ...competences to mitigate psychosocial damages after living a shocking situation. The study aimed to establish relationships between the competences of fathers and mothers, the support they seek in the community and resilience factors in infants exposed to the armed conflict in a region of the Colombian Caribbean. Through a quantitative - correlative methodology, scales and inventories were applied to 230 families. The results showed a positive relationship between community integration and the ability of parental figures to guide infants. A positive relationship was found between the capacity of the parental figures to plan free time and the ability of children to understand the feelings and ideas of others. These results suggest lines of action in social programs aimed at strengthening family resources, achieving the difficult reparation of the victims and finding the desired national reconciliation in moments of post-agreement.
INTRODUCCIÓN. El Programa "Vivir la adolescencia en familia" adaptado para familias cuyos hijos/as están en situación de riesgo de Abandono Escolar Temprano (AET) muestra ser eficaz para promover las ...competencias parentales. De igual forma, una de las respuestas educativas necesarias para disminuir el AET es el trabajo con las familias. MÉTODO. El programa se ha llevado a cabo en 48 institutos de secundaria de Canarias, con 60 profesores que implementaban el programa y un total de 654 madres, de las cuales 438 pertenecían al grupo de intervención y 216 al grupo de control. También se evaluó a los/las hijos/as de estas familias, concretamente fueron 538 alumnos/as, de los cuales 372 eran hijos/as de las madres que realizaron el programa y 166 conformarían el grupo de control. Se utilizaron dos escalas: Escala de Percepción Sobre las Competencias Parentales (versión madres) y la Escala de Competencias Personales del Menor (versión profesorado). Estas escalas en su versión inicial y final se aplicaron en el mismo tiempo a ambos grupos. RESULTADOS. Las madres del grupo de intervención mejoran sus competencias de desarrollo personal y resiliencia y aquellas otras de búsqueda de apoyo formal. Igualmente al comparar los resultados con el grupo de control, las madres participantes en el programa se diferencian en tener mayor nivel en todas las competencias parentales estudiadas, excepto la de búsqueda de apoyo informal. Con respecto a los/las hijos/as de las madres participantes, mejoraron en sus competencias de desarrollo personal y resiliencia y en competencias cognitivas. Comparados estos con el grupo de control, tienen mayores niveles en todas las competencias personales analizadas. DISCUSIÓN. La educación parental grupal con metodología experiencial es un recurso psicoeducativo muy eficaz para conseguir cambios importantes en las competencias parentales. web URL: http://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/BORDON/article/view/Bordon. 2015.67402
Bipolar disorder is a serious mental disorder of a chronic nature, which implies important functional and forensic implications, with a relevant impact on matters of care and custody due to the ...possible impairment of parental competences. The role of the forensic psychologist is a key element in the task of counselling Judges and Courts, since the entry into force of Law 15/2005. The goal of this study is to examine the weight of the bipolar disorder and its implications in the decisional phase of magistrates and tribunals, for which a systematic analysis of jurisprudential doctrine in the last 20 years in Spain was carried out. 75 sentences of Provincial Courts in which the psychological forensic report was relevant were obtained. The conclusion is that the impact of bipolar disorder in the judicial resolutions depends on its interference in the progenitors’ parental competences, beyond the mere diagnostic label, and the psychological expert report is essential to be able to delimit the idiosyncratic characteristics of each case.
El trastorno bipolar (TB) es un trastorno mental grave (TMG) que implica importantes repercusiones funcionales y psicojurídicas, con un impacto relevante en materia de guarda y custodia, debido a la posible afectación de las competencias parentales de quien lo padece. El papel del psicólogo forense es fundamental a la hora de asesorar a jueces y tribunales a partir de la entrada en vigor de la Ley 15/2005. El objetivo del presente estudio es examinar el peso del trastorno bipolar (TB) y sus repercusiones en la fase decisional de magistrados y tribunales, para lo cual se realiza de manera conjunta por cuatro especialistas en psicología forense, un análisis sistemático de la doctrina jurisprudencial de los últimos 20 años en España. Tras un proceso de selección de resoluciones relevantes, se obtiene una muestra de 75 sentencias de Audiencias Provinciales en las cuales el informe psicológico forense fue tenido en consideración en la decisión judicial. El peso del trastorno bipolar, más allá de la mera etiqueta diagnóstica, depende de la interferencia del mismo en las competencias parentales del progenitor; para valorar la posible afectación, es esencial la prueba pericial psicológica, que permitirá delimitar con precisión las características idiosincrásicas de cada caso.
Le propos de cet article est, à partir d’une longue expérience d’accompagnement de parents vivant dans une situation de grande pauvreté, de poser les bases d’une réflexion sur une prévention et des ...soins qui tiendraient véritablement compte des spécificités de ces familles. Il s’agit pour les professionnels non d’inciter les parents à s’adapter à ce qui est proposé, ce qui est parfois impossible, mais de penser, à partir d’une bonne connaissance de ces familles, à construire des stratégies d’adaptation. Ceci pour ce qui concerne la grossesse, le moment de l’accouchement et la petite enfance.
Using his great experience in attending parents going through situations of severe poverty, the author lays a basis to reflect upon a prevention and health cares that would truly take into account each family’s specificities. Since for parents, adapting to what they are proposed is often quite impossible, the point for professionals is to manage for the help to become adapted, through a thorough knowledge of each situation, to the families concerned. This is related to pregnancy, birth time and early childhood.
•Adaptation and validation the scale of Positive Parental Practices for children 0- to 3 years.•Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis were performed with 950 participants.•This study provides ...the standardization of the Spanish scale scores in parental competences.•The final version for the Spanish population is composed of 27 items and 7 subscales.•This scale is considered useful for assessing parental competences in parents of young children.
This study aims to adapt and validate the scale of Positive Parental Practices of the Caregiver (SP + C), in the version for children from 0 to 3 years. First, the process of cross-cultural adaptation was performed. Subsequently, for the validation of the scale, we analyzed a sample of 950 participants, with children aged between 0 and 3 years. The participants’ native language was Spanish or it was the language spoken at home. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was performed with Sample 1 (n = 483 participants), yielding 7 factors: Daily Involvement, Mentalization, Sensitivity, Promoting Learning, Attention and Organization of Daily Life, Monitoring of Parental Activity, and Parental Self-Care. Confirmatory Factory Analysis (CFA) was performed with Sample 2 (n = 467), which confirmed the factor structure of the scale. Reliability analysis showed that the scale had an adequate internal consistency. To determine criterion validity, bivariate correlations were calculated with other variables that evaluate parental competence, expecting to find significant positive relationships between them. This paper provides the standardization of the Spanish scale scores. In conclusion, the final validated scale is composed of 27 items and 7 subscales, with adequate psychometric properties. It is considered useful for the evaluation of parental competences in parents of young children.
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