Reducing Parenting Stress to Facilitate Justice-Involved Youth's Treatment
University of California, San Francisco
Summary
Parenting stress is a well-documented barrier to youth engagement in community-based substance use treatment. The current project aims to develop and evaluate a mobile health parenting stress intervention for caregivers of justice-involved youth, a population with high rates of substance use and low rates of treatment engagement.
Description
Justice-involved youth exhibit high rates of substance use and mental health symptoms, yet few receive treatment during detention or community re-entry. Once released into the community, caregivers must facilitate youth's treatment engagement, mobilizing significant resources and facing many barriers (e.g., transportation, mistrust) to do so. Parenting stress, which is heightened during youth detention and community reentry, is associated with greater perceived barriers to treatment, less youth therapeutic change throughout treatment, and premature treatment dropout. Addressing parenting stres…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 12+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: The following is a description for the inclusion criteria for aims 1 and 2 for caregivers participating in this research study. Eligible caregivers must be the parent or legal guardian of a youth who is: * currently detained in a juvenile detention center or correctional facility, mandated by the juvenile justice system to a congregate out-of-home placement (e.g., group home); * 12-17 years old; * has an identified substance use or substance use and co-occurring mental health need; * and is scheduled to be released into the community to the care of the enrolled caregiver…
Interventions
- BehavioralmHealth parenting stress app
mHealth parenting stress app intervention to reduce parenting stress and improving youth community-based treatment engagement.
Location
- UCSF Zuckerberg San Francisco General HospitalSan Francisco, California