Integrating Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills and Parent Training for Dually Dysregulated Parents and Children: An Idiographic Case Study.

ABSTRACT: Despite high rates of co-occurrence of psychopathology among parents and children, few interventions simultaneously address clinically elevated symptoms in parent and child as well as parenting. Emotion dysregulation (ED) is a promising transdiagnostic target for such dual-generation interventions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills target ED, and there is growing interest in integrating DBT Skills with Parent Training (PT) to improve the mental health of parents and children. In this case study, a 24-week DBT Skills + PT intervention for emotionally dysregulated parent-preschooler dyads was delivered to three parents. We evaluated the process of change in parental ED, parent-reported child ED, and parenting using idiographic statistical analyses of weekly repeated measures (26 time

SUBMITTER: Everett Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12441813 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature