title: [Parental Stress and psychopathological traits in children and adolescents. A controlled study].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Since parental stress and family empowerment were shown to influence children's and adolescents' outcome, especially in the case of psychotherapeutic treatments, the present study aims to deeply explore factors that are likely to impact on stress and empowerment in parents of children with a psychiatric diagnosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Parenting stress and empowerment have been compared between 45 parents of children with a psychiatric disorder and 96 parents of children without psychiatric disorders.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Parenting stress appeared to be higher in patients' parents and it varied according to disorder severity, while socio-demographic variables seemed to influence the stress levels only to a slight extent. Moreover parental stress and empowerment influenced each other within the parental couple.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Developing interventions aimed to support parenting and to involve fathers in the parent-child relationship, focused on increasing parents empowerment and self-efficacy, could contribute to decrease stress and positively influence children's psychopathology.
authors.affiliation: Struttura Complessa Infanzia Adolescenza e Famiglia (SC IAF), ULSS 16, Università di Padova.
authors.forename: Michela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gatta
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia Applicata, Sezione di Psicologia Applicata e CIRF - Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sulla Famiglia, Università di Padova.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Balottin
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia Applicata, Sezione di Psicologia Applicata e CIRF - Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sulla Famiglia, Università di Padova.
authors.forename: Stefania
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mannarini
authors.affiliation: Struttura Complessa Infanzia Adolescenza e Famiglia (SC IAF), ULSS 16, Università di Padova.
authors.forename: Valentina
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Birocchi
authors.affiliation: Struttura Complessa Infanzia Adolescenza e Famiglia (SC IAF), ULSS 16, Università di Padova.
authors.forename: Lara
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Del Col
authors.affiliation: Struttura Complessa Infanzia Adolescenza e Famiglia (SC IAF), ULSS 16, Università di Padova.
authors.forename: Pier Antonio
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Battistella
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011209:Power, Psychological; D002666:Psychology, Child; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*