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Marital Conflict-Focused Parent Education for Families with Adolescents

Research
January 2008
June 2011
$705,995
E. Mark Cummings
University of Notre Dame
Can a relatively brief, research based program for parents that focuses on the effects of marital conflict reduce family conflict and improve adolescent outcomes? Does an adolescent program in conjunction with the parent program further reduce family conflict and improve adolescent outcomes? Studies have shown that marital conflict in a family setting has a deleterious effect on youths’ future success. The researchers will introduce an intervention that will teach conflict resolution to help reduce the development of serious family problems, which should result in fewer negative youth outcomes. Families will be randomly assigned either to a parent only treatment group, a parent and adolescent treatment group, a self-study control group, or a no treatment control group, with planned sample sizes of approximately 50 for each group. Intervention groups will meet for four treatment and two booster sessions; and pre, post, six-month and one-year follow-ups are planned. The study includes 200 volunteer families with an adolescent between the ages of 12 and 16 from northwest Indiana and southwest Michigan. This project fits the Foundation’s interest in families as a social setting, and the focus on family processes will advance our understanding of how such processes causally affect youth outcomes.
Focus Areas of this Grant
12 - 18
Family/Family Policy
Male, Female
Rural, Suburban, Urban
American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Latino or Hispanic, White, Other Race/Ethnicity
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