Specific parenting problems when adolescents have emotional and behavioural disorders.
Specific parenting dimensions were explored of parents with adolescents (11-17 years old) referred to outpatient clinics for behavioural and emotional problems. Eighty-seven parent-adolescent pairs participated. Parents completed a parenting interview, and the adolescents were administered a diagnostic interview, the Child Assessment Schedule. Parents of adolescents with behaviour disorders showed impairment in 8/10 parenting dimensions compared to parents of adolescents with emotional disorders or parents of adolescents with no disorder. Parents with behaviour-disordered adolescents had more problems with Appreciation, Involvement, Setting Limits, Consistency, Monitoring Contact, Parenting Priority and Negative Attributions than did other parents. Impaired parenting by the same-gender parent was more related to the adolescent's problems than the opposite-gender parent. Fathers' lack of contact with their sons strongly correlated with their sons' expression of anger.
Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. Turid.Suzanne.Berg-Nielsen@svt.ntnu.no
Turid Suzanne
TS
Berg-Nielsen
Arne
A
Vikan
Alv A
AA
Dahl
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D009664:Norway; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*