Role of @entity458 in parents of adolescents with XXXX : development of a measure and preliminary correlation analyses.

@entity1 @entity146 @entity458 @entity158 @entity1118
Parent responses to the experiences of adolescents with @entity1118 are deemed important. At the same time the best ways to conceptualize, measure, and intervene with these are unclear. The purpose of the present study was to develop a measure of parent responses based on the approach proposed in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), an approach that focuses on @entity458 . A total of 183 adolescents attending a specialty treatment center for @entity1118 , and adults attending with them, provided the data examined in this study. Standard measures of adolescent functioning and parent responses were obtained. In addition, the attending adults, who were mostly mothers, also completed a pool of items for an instrument called the Parent Psychological Flexibility Questionnaire (PPFQ). Preliminary analyses of these items showed an internal consistency of a=0.91. The total score for parent @entity458 was negatively correlated with protective and encouraging parent responses to @entity158 , as predicted. It was also positively correlated with adolescent acceptance of @entity158 and negatively correlated with measures of @entity158 on their social, emotional, family, and developmental functioning. Additional analyses showed that the PPFQ yields significant unique information about adolescent functioning independent of age and gender and beyond that provided by another well-established measure of parent responses. There is increasing evidence for the effectiveness of ACT in the treatment of a range of @entity146 in adults and young @entity1 and in training for @entity1 without identified "disorders." It seems potentially applicable for parent training in the context of adolescent @entity1118 .
