title: Addressing Parental Mental Health Within Interventions for Children: A Review.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Untreated parent mental health problems have deleterious effects upon the family, yet caregivers are unlikely to receive services for their emotional health. We conducted a review of treatments and services for children and adolescents that also offered services to parents.
  
  
  METHODS
  Child treatment and service studies were included in the present study if they analyzed parent symptoms or diagnoses over time, and the intervention contained a parent component.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of 200 studies reviewed, 20 contained a component for the parent and assessed the parent's emotional health at multiple time points. Depression and anxiety were the most commonly studied parental mental health problem; most parent components consisted of behavioral strategies in service of the child's psychological health.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Major shifts in health care policy affecting mental health services provide an opportunity to create integrated and coordinated health and behavioral health systems. Attention must be given to ensure that the workforce of providers, the administrative structures, and the reimbursement strategies are strengthened and connected to serve the needs of parents/caregivers and children in order to enhance family outcomes.
authors.affiliation: New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Mary C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Acri
authors.affiliation: New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Kimberly Eaton
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Hoagwood
keywords: child mental health services; parent mental health; parent outcomes; parent support; service fragmentation