An attachment-based program for parents of youth with clinically significant mental health problems: Scaling up and drilling down to mechanisms of change.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Given the prevalence and recent increases in youth mental health problems, there is a pressing need for interventions that target transdiagnostic protective factors that could be targeted as mechanisms of change in treatment. Such interventions are most likely to succeed in meeting population needs if they are scalable, sustainable, and effective. Connect is a manualized, 10-session trauma-informed and attachment-based parent program that is structured, emotion-focused and skills-oriented. Developed for broad implementation by community mental health workers, Connect is designed to promote parent-child attachment security, a well-established transdiagnostic protective factor for youth mental health.

Methods

We examined whether parent-youth attachment

SUBMITTER: Moretti MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11889652 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature