The study will be conducted in three phases: assessments, group intervention and individual intervention. All participants will engage in the full program over a period of five weeks, divided into ten sessions. The 5 group interventions will occur once a week for 1.5 hours. During this time, the psychotherapist will disseminate psychological knowledge and skills pertinent to parenting, after which the group members will engage in practice exercises and discourse. Subsequently, one individual session will be conducted each week for one hour. The test group (Group A) will be assessed once at recruitment and after the last individual session. The control group (Group B) will undergo the same intervention as the test group after the test group completes the intervention and posttest, and will be assessed one additional time for pre-intervention status.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
56
All participants of the lighthouse parenting programme will engage in the full program over a period of five weeks, divided into ten sessions. The 5 group interventions will occur once a week for 1.5 hours. During this time, the psychotherapist will disseminate psychological knowledge and skills pertinent to parenting, after which the group members will engage in practice exercises and discourse. Subsequently, one individual session will be conducted each week for one hour.
Parenting stress
The Parenting Stress Index/Short Form (PSI/SF; Abidin, 1986) is employed to assess parenting stress.
Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 5 weeks
Parental mentalising
The Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ; Luyten, Mayes, Nijssens, \& Fonagy, 2017) is employed to assess parental mentalizing.
Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 5 weeks
Quality of the parent-child relationship
The quality of the parent-child relationship is evaluated using the Multiperspective Parent-Child Relationship Questionnaire (M-PCR; Müller \& Achtergarde, 2018).
Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 5 weeks
parenting efficacy
The Brief Parental Self-Efficacy Scale (Woolgar et al., 2023) is employed to assess parenting efficacy.
Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 5 weeks
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