title: The viability of the Parenting Representations Interview for assessing and measuring change in parents of adolescents.
abstract: Parents' representations include parents' views of their adolescent, of their own parenting and of the parent-adolescent relationship. Two longitudinal studies of parents and their adolescent sons and daughters support the validity of scales coding mothers in the Parenting Representations Interview-Adolescence (PRI-A). The studies, conducted in Israel during the transition from home to military service, demonstrated that three dimensions derived from the PRI-A: positive representations of adolescents, negative emotionality and inadequate boundaries were associated with adolescents' AAI variables, relatedness-autonomy behaviors with mothers, and with other indicators, such as adolescents' wellbeing, romantic intimacy and individuation. Examining parenting representations could help practitioners pinpoint targets for intervention and evaluate the changes that families go through during psychotherapy, as well as the therapeutic process and its outcomes. The findings support the viability of the PRI for use in attachment based interventions for adolescents.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Counseling and Human Development, Faculty of Education , University of Haifa , Israel.
authors.forename: Miri
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Scharf
authors.forename: Ofra
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Mayseless
authors.forename: Inbal
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kivenson-Baron
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007557:Israel; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008889:Military Personnel; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers; D009769:Object Attachment; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent / Q000379:methods*; D020377:Self Efficacy
keywords: Adult Attachment Interview; adolescence; attachment; intervention; parenting representations