Parenting
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Ask Attwood – Autism & Anxiety
Are you a parent looking for trusted, practical advice on supporting your child with anxiety? For the first time in this new “Ask Attwood” format, world-renowned Clinical Psychologist Professor Tony Attwood will offer a short introduction to the key themes of anxiety in young people, before answering your questions live.
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- Talk with Q&A
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- LIVE STREAM
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Understanding How Parenting Programs Work: Key Behaviour Changes and Individual Differences in Outcomes
A 2025 study by Sigurðardóttir and colleagues brings together findings from 14 European randomized controlled trials with 3,252 families, all evaluating social learning-based parenting programmes. The study examined in detail how these programmes can support the reduction of disruptive behaviours in children.
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Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: What Makes Coaching Work?
A new study by Scherpbier et al. (2025) explores how therapists support parents in learning and using positive interaction strategies during Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). Using 125 video-recorded sessions from 17 Dutch families, the authors applied lag sequential analysis to identify which therapist coaching techniques were most likely to encourage parents to use key interaction […]
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Unlocking the Potential of Parenting Programs: How Financial Incentives Can Drive Engagement
Parenting programs are vital tools for addressing disruptive behaviours in children, yet low participation rates undermine their potential. Our recent research highlights that financial incentives can boost engagement, particularly among underserved families, and suggests new directions for increasing the accessibility and effectiveness of these programs.
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Annual Research Review: ‘There, the dance is – at the still point of the turning world’ – dynamic systems perspectives on coregulation and dysregulation during early development
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘ Here, we present a dynamic framework for understanding child–caregiver coregulatory interactions in the context of psychopathology.’ Sam Wass (pic) et al.
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A systematic review of the association between parent-child communication and adolescent mental health
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘This systematic review addresses how adolescent-rated parent-child communication (PCC) quality is related to adolescent mental health.’ Holger Zapf et al.
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Comparing findings from the random-intercept cross-lagged panel model and the monozygotic twin difference cross-lagged panel model: Maladaptive parenting and offspring emotional and behavioural problems
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘We examine associations between maladaptive parenting and child emotional and behavioural problems in identical twins aged 9, 12 and 16.’ Marie-Louise J. Kullberg (pic) et al.
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Effects of engaging fathers and bundling parenting and nutrition interventions on early child development and maternal and paternal parenting in Mara, Tanzania: a factorial cluster-randomized controlled trial
Paper from the JCPP – ‘We compared the independent and combined effects of engaging fathers and bundling parenting components into a nutrition intervention on early child development (ECD) and parenting outcomes.’ Joshua Jeong (pic) et al.
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Reciprocal relations between interparental aggression and symptoms of oppositional defiant and conduct disorders: a seven-wave cohort study of within-family effects from preschool to adolescence
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘This study examined whether increased interparental aggression predicted increased symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and conduct disorder (CD) from preschool to adolescence and vice versa.’ Habib Niyaraq Nobakht (pic) et al.
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Pathways from maternal depression to child resilience: Socioeconomic, family, and individual factors in the 2004 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘These findings suggest that cognitive stimulation in early childhood may represent a modifiable protective factor for children exposed to maternal depression and a promising intervention target to promote child resilience in the context of maternal depression exposure.’ Jessica Mayumi Maruyama and Andreas Bauer (pic) et al.
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