Parent-child emotion dynamics in families presenting for behavioral parent training: Is there a link with child behavior, parenting, and treatment outcome?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Behavioral parent training (BPT) is the standard of care for early onset behavior disorders (BDs), however, not all families benefit. Emotion regulation (ER) is one potential mechanism underlying BPT outcomes, yet there are challenges in capturing intra- and interpersonal aspects of emotion regulation within parent-child interactions that are central to BPT. This study examined how vocally encoded emotional arousal unfolds during parent-child interactions and how parents and children influence each other's arousal (Aim 1), the links between these emotion dynamics, child behavior, and parenting at baseline (Aim 2), and BPT outcome (Aim 3).

Method

Families of children with BDs (N = 45) completed two interaction tasks and measures of parenting and child behavio

SUBMITTER: Fischer MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11955734 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature