Parent-child communication processes: preventing children's health-risk behavior.
OBJECTIVE
Review individual, family, and environmental factors that predict health-risk behavior among children and to propose parent-child communication processes as a mechanism to mediate them.


CONCLUSIONS
Improving parent-child communication processes may: reduce individual risk factors, such as poor academic achievement or self-esteem; modify parenting practices such as providing regulation and structure and acting as models of health behavior; and facilitate discussion about factors that lead to involvement in health-risk behaviors.


CONCLUSIONS
Assessment strategies to identify youth at risk for health-risk behavior are recommended and community-based strategies to improve communication among parents and children need development.
Riesch
Susan K
SK
Waisman Center for Human Development and Neurosciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA. skriesch@wisc.edu
Anderson
Lori S
LS
Krueger
Heather A
HA
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D011340:Problem Solving; D012307:Risk Factors; D012309:Risk-Taking; D014481:United States