Parent Smart: Effects of a Technology-Assisted Intervention for Parents of Adolescents in Residential Substance Use Treatment on Parental Monitoring and Communication
Sara J. Becker, Sarah A. Helseth, Tim Janssen, Lourah M. Kelly, Katherine Escobar & Anthony Spirito (2021)
Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 6(4), 459–472.
The Parenting Wisely program was used as a principal component of the Parent SMART intervention. Observations of parents and teens interacting showed significant improvements in parental monitoring and communication, two predictors of teen substance abuse. A related study showed reductions in teen substance use and school problems at a short-term facility when the parents received Parent SMART compared to a treatment-as-usual intervention.
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