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{"title":"\"It's Like What Sex Ed Should Probably Be\": Fathers' Feedback on a Teen Health Program.","authors":"Jennifer M Grossman, Michelle Sullivan, Ellery S Gleason-Kaiser","doi":"10.1007/s10826-026-03257-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-026-03257-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Father-teen communication about sex can positively influence teens' sexual health, but few programs provide guidance for fathers to talk with their teens about sexual topics. This study qualitatively examines fathers' feedback on the connected dads, healthy teens intervention, an online program designed to support teens' health and promote fathers' sexual health communication with their teens. The research team used content analysis to analyze interviews with 25 fathers from across the united states who participated in the program with their teens. Findings showed that fathers viewed the program as impactful, describing gains in knowledge and communication skills, shifts in mindset related to their teens' sexual health, and increased engagement and closeness with their teens. Fathers described skill-building components with tips for how to talk with teens about challenging topics as a particularly useful aspect of the program, extending beyond talk about sex and relationships. These findings highlight the potential of father-based interventions to improve fathers' engagement with their teens to support their sexual health. It also shows the importance of concrete tools to support fathers' parenting, which have potential to impact fathers' engagement with their teens on topics beyond a sexual health focus.</p>","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":"35 3","pages":"737-752"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12953356/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147357141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Effects of a Child-Focused Coping Intervention on Parental Coping and Parent Depressive Symptoms in a Randomized Control Trial.","authors":"Adithi Rajagopalan, Martha Wadsworth","doi":"10.1007/s10826-025-03235-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10826-025-03235-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Poverty and its related stressors have been shown to lead to poor mental and physical health outcomes for entire family systems including youth and their caregivers. However, active and engagement coping strategies have been shown to disrupt this relationship, protecting against negative outcomes for youth and their caregivers. The Adaptation to Poverty Related Stress model posits that coping for children and caregivers is related in a dyadic nature, such that the ability of each unit to engage useful coping mechanisms impacts the others. Research has primarily focused on the impact of parent-focused interventions on child coping. Little research has explored how child-focused interventions impact parent coping and parent mental health. The Building a Strong Identity and Coping Skills Intervention (BaSICS), a child-focused coping intervention, was designed to educate youth about multiple uncontrollable stressors and promote coping skills development. This intervention has been shown to improve child mental health. This study explored the mediating nature of parent coping following a child's enrollment in BaSICS on parent depressive symptoms during a randomized control trial (RCT). Results revealed a mediating relationship of parent primary control coping. Additional hierarchical regressions demonstrated that parent secondary control coping was promotive of a reduction in parent depressive symptoms, as was child use of problem-solving. This study demonstrated that child coping, whether through modeling or other mechanisms, can positively impact parent coping and mental health. This suggests that child-focused programming may be another point of intervention for families in high-stress contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"157-169"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12812079/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146004511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adverse Childhood Experiences and Parenting Stress in Foster Families: Mentalizing as a Pathway to Strain.","authors":"Laura H Dosanjh, Tina Adkins, Kiera Coulter, Peter Fonagy","doi":"10.1007/s10826-026-03280-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-026-03280-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can compromise parents' ability to form supportive and attuned parent-child relationships, and mentalizing may be a critical conduit linking ACEs to perceived relational strain, a core dimension of parenting stress. Foster parents may be especially vulnerable due to elevated ACE exposures and the demands of parenting children with complex needs in high-stakes caregiving contexts. Despite these risks, research examining how ACEs influence perceived relational strain through mentalizing remains limited in foster families. Data was obtained from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a psychoeducational mentalizing intervention for 89 foster parents. A mediation analysis tested mentalizing as an indirect influence on links between parental ACEs and perceived relational strain (as a key dimension of parenting stress). ACEs were associated with increased pre-mentalizing scores, reflecting a reduction in mentalizing capabilities (<i>b</i> = 0.098, <i>p</i> < .05), which in turn was associated with higher levels of perceived relational strain (<i>b</i> = 8.61, <i>p</i> < .001). Bootstrapping (with 5,000 samples) confirmed a statistically significant indirect effect (<i>b</i> = 0.84, 95% CI [0.06, 1.62], <i>p</i> = .034). The contributions of ACEs and mentalizing to perceived relational strain were asymmetrical; ACEs explained 5% of the variance in mentalizing (<i>R</i>² = 0.05), whereas ACEs and mentalizing together explained 31.6% of the variance in parenting stress (<i>R</i>² = 0.316). Sensitivity analyses supported the temporal ordering of variables through longitudinal design. This study highlights the importance of mentalizing capacity as a critical pathway linking ACEs to perceived relational strain in this sample of foster families.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10826-026-03280-7.</p>","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":"35 4","pages":"841-852"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13061810/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147677840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What Parents Say and do: Parental Responses to Asian American Young Adult Mental Health and Help Seeking.","authors":"Miwa Yasui, Eunseok Jeong","doi":"10.1007/s10826-026-03259-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-026-03259-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Asian American cultures may hold culturally construed views of mental health and help-seeking that are contrary to Western, biomedical notions of mental health and treatment. Asian American young adults may learn culturally specific views of mental health and help-seeking through the family, which is the primary socialization context for children. Parental mental health socialization, a central mechanism through which parents transmit messages about mental health and help-seeking to children, is designed to shape the way Asian American young adults understand and respond to distress. This study developed and tested the Parental Mental Health Socialization - Parental Responses (PMHS-PR) scale, one of the first measures of parental processes of mental health socialization among a sample of 486 Asian American young adults. Using a split sample approach, exploratory factor analysis first determined the factor structure of the measure on Sample 1 (<i>n</i> = 243), followed by a confirmatory factor analysis on Sample 2 (<i>n</i> = 243). Correlations between derived factors with measures of stigma attitudes and mental health outcomes were examined. Results revealed a bifactor structure with one general factor of parental mental health socialization and five specific factors: Parental Stigma Toward Youth, Parental Supportiveness, Enduring and Overcoming Distress, Hiding Mental Health from Others, and Parental Silence. The PMHS-PR showed good internal consistency reliability and concurrent validity with depression and somatic symptoms and stigma attitudes towards mental illness. Findings indicate that the PMHS-PR is a multidimensional, psychometrically sound scale that measures broadband and narrowband dimensions of parent mental health socialization among Asian Americans that are linked to salient young adult mental health outcomes. This signals its importance in identifying familial influences that centrally shape mental health attitudes and help-seeking among Asian American young adults.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10826-026-03259-4.</p>","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":"35 3","pages":"767-781"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12953297/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147357171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Qualitative Study of U.S. Latino Fathers' Perceptions of Parenting Motivations.","authors":"Rachel A Ghosh, Natasha J Cabrera, Yu Chen, Avery Hennigar, Minxuan He, Stephanie M Reich, Kevin Roy","doi":"10.1007/s10826-025-03238-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10826-025-03238-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Though ample research and theory suggest that parents' beliefs and cognitions are important predictors of their parenting behaviors, there is little understanding of Latino fathers' perceived parenting motivations. We explored resident, first-time fathers' motivations to be involved parents in a sample (<i>N</i> = 85) of socioeconomically diverse Latino fathers participating in a parenting intervention in the Washington D.C. area and southern California. Data were collected through structured interviews that were recorded during home visits when infants were 18-months old. Bilingual research assistants transcribed and translated into English fathers' responses to the interview question, \"What makes you want to be a good parent?\" A thematic analysis revealed five main emergent themes: (1) personal rearing history, (2) desire to rear a well-adjusted child, (3) relationship with their child, (4) intrinsic motivations, and (5) sense of duty and responsibility. We further explored whether fathers' perceived parenting motivations varied by their nativity status (i.e., U.S.-born or immigrant). We found variations in each of the themes, including that immigrant Latino fathers were more likely to prioritize their children's morals and values, whereas U.S.-born Latino fathers emphasized their child's future success. This study contributes to the limited research on Latino fathers' parenting perceptions and beliefs. The findings can be used to inform programs geared at strengthening Latine family functioning in the face of adversity through leveraging the reasons behind why fathers want to be positively involved with their young children.</p>","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":"35 2","pages":"526-541"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12881033/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146144198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Square Pegs in Round Holes: How Strict Policies and Standardization of Mental Health Treatment Practices Complicate Youth Care Seeking.","authors":"David A A Miller, Scott T Ronis","doi":"10.1007/s10826-026-03273-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-026-03273-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Public mental health practices related to treatment assignment and delivery are increasingly becoming standardized, yet little is known about which standardized practices affect youth treatment seeking. Although standardization introduces consistency in procedures, diagnoses, and treatment, and is considered beneficial to institutions and individuals for a variety of reasons (e.g., reliability of administration, predictability of outcomes), it often reduces individuals to diagnostic or symptom-specific classifiers and disproportionately affects care seeking among youth due to their marginalized position in care delivery. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 34 youth, ages 10 to 21 years, as part of the Atlantic Canada Children's Effective Service Strategies Mental Health (ACCESS-MH) project to assess the impact of standardized care practices on youth mental health care seeking. Based on analyses using Psycho-Social Ethnography of the Commonplace (P-SEC) methodology, findings highlight the struggle of marginalised individuals (i.e., youth in need of mental health services) when trying to navigate mental health systems. Findings indicate that standardization of care can act as a barrier for youth due to shortcomings in the appropriateness and timeliness of interventions, and that treatment monitoring and the use of modalities less reliant on categorical diagnosis could help to address the negative impact. Recommendations related to policy change [e.g., treatment monitoring, the use of modalities less reliant on categorical diagnosis] are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":"35 4","pages":"812-827"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13061788/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147677811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Constellations of Family Qualities and Links with Psychological and Behavioral Health in Adolescence and Young Adulthood.","authors":"Anna K Hochgraf, Mikayla R Barry, Stephanie T Lanza, Marlena Jacobsen, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer","doi":"10.1007/s10826-025-03154-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10826-025-03154-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Positive family qualities, including low parent pressure to control weight, high physical activity support, frequent family meals, family connectedness, healthy family functioning, and parental monitoring, may promote youth psychological and behavioral health. We aimed to identify naturally occurring patterns of family qualities during adolescence and examine links with body satisfaction, self-esteem, depressive symptoms, disordered eating, and substance use during adolescence and young adulthood. Our goal was to inform family-centered interventions to prevent adverse health outcomes impacting youth. Data were from a longitudinal study of 1,568 youth (53% female; 20% Asian, 29% Black, 17% Latinx, 19% White), that spanned adolescence (<i>M</i> age = 14.4 years) to young adulthood (<i>M</i> age = 22.2 years). Results from latent class analysis indicated that 8% of families were thriving, with low probability of parent pressure to control weight and high probabilities of physical activity support, frequent family meals, family connectedness, healthy family functioning, and parental monitoring. Other classes were distinguished by weight-specific risk (23% of families), broad risk (34% of families), disengagement (18% of families), and high risk (16% of families). Youth in thriving families reported better psychological and behavioral health than their peers concurrently in adolescence and longitudinally in young adulthood; yet this pattern of family qualities was rare. Family-centered interventions that target parent pressure to control weight, physical activity support, family meals, family connectedness, family functioning, and parental monitoring may help prevent multiple psychological and behavioral health problems. Heterogeneity in family qualities suggests that family-centered interventions could be tailored based on family strengths.</p>","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12470379/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145186951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Qualitative Study of the Saving and Banking Experiences of Adolescent Girls and Their Caregivers in Ghana.","authors":"Ozge Sensoy Bahar, Alice Boateng, Abdallah Ibrahim, Portia Nartey, Kingsley Kumbelim, Meti Abdella, Proscovia Nabunya, Fred M Ssewamala, Mary M McKay","doi":"10.1007/s10826-025-03125-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10826-025-03125-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Financial inclusion is critical to poverty reduction, but significant challenges remain. The impact of family economic empowerment interventions has not been tested among adolescent girls at risk of dropping out of school. Additionally, studies exploring adolescent girls' (and their caregivers') experiences with saving and depositing are limited. Hence, we qualitatively explored the saving and banking experiences of Ghanaian adolescent girls and their caregivers (<i>n</i> = 20 dyads) who participated in a combination intervention that included an economic empowerment component. Thematic analysis was used for data analysis. Results showed that most families did not have bank accounts due to lack of knowledge, limited literacy, and the belief that banks were for \"rich\" people. Forgetting necessary documents was a barrier and program support was a facilitator to account opening during the intervention. Stable income, matched savings, future planning, and small savings were facilitators whereas income fluctuation was a barrier to saving. Fund availability, filling deposit forms, and long lines were identified as challenges and support from bank personnel, relatives, and the program facilitated the depositing process. Our results identify the facilitators and barriers to saving and using bank services; and have programmatic and policy implications in Ghana.</p>","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12434932/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145076361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pandemic-related stress and access to caregivers and healthcare among parents-to-be.","authors":"Olivia Veira, Shreya Bhise, Nicolette Stelter, Kathryn Van Eck, Sara B Johnson, Tim Nelson, Alain B Labrique, Sara Skelton, Dustin G Gibson, Arik V Marcell","doi":"10.1007/s10826-024-02966-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10826-024-02966-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":"34 6","pages":"1516-1526"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12320943/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144785677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Family stressors impact adolescents' anxiety and depressive symptoms during COVID-19.","authors":"Frances M Lobo, Anna M Zhou, Nora A Tucker, Sarah Myruski, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Kristin A Buss","doi":"10.1007/s10826-025-03062-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10826-025-03062-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Stay-at-home orders and social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic have been associated with increased stress, changes in youths' routines, and greater uncertainty within the family system. There is evidence that the pandemic has led to changes in adolescent symptomatology, although heterogeneity in findings suggests that other factors may also play a role. We examined how family-level stressors were associated with parent- and youth-reported youth anxiety and depressive symptoms six months later during the first year of the pandemic. Data were collected from 259 youth (<i>M</i> _age = 15.38, <i>SD</i> = 1.65) and their families in Pennsylvania and the surrounding region from August 2020 to May 2021. Anxiety and depression presented differential patterns in response to COVID-19. We observed strong stability in parent-reported symptoms across this period, and moderate stability in youth reports of their depressive symptoms. Parent-reported COVID-19 pandemic impact on the family (e.g., job changes) was positively associated with parent reports of youth anxiety both concurrently and six months later, but not with parent reports of youth depressive symptoms. Controlling for the financial, health, and social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the family, youth-reported household chaos was positively associated with parent reports of youth depressive symptoms six months later. Youth reports of family conflict concerns were positively associated with their self-reported anxiety and depressive symptoms six months later. These results highlight the importance of considering the family system in understanding differences in adolescent anxiety and depressive symptoms during broader geopolitical stressful life events.</p>","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":"34 5","pages":"1363-1377"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12956277/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147357062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}