Online Divorce Education for Separating/Divorcing Parents

针对分居/离婚父母的在线离婚教育

• 批准号: 7470899
• 负责人: DONALD GORDON
• 金额: $ 12.65万
• 依托单位: FAMILY WORKS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-01 至 2009-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7470899
• 关键词: Address; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcohols; Annual Reports; Child; Cigarette; Communication; Comprehension; Conflict (Psychology); Control Groups; Country; County; Couples; Currently Married; Divorce; Drug Controls; Education; Evaluation; Evidence based program; Exhibits; Exposure to; Family; Feedback; Goals; Hispanics; Individual; Intervention; Interview; Knowledge; Language; Legal; Litigation; Marijuana; Marketing; Measures; Minor; National Institute of Drug Abuse; Normal Range; Outcome; Parents; Phase; Policies; Population; Prevention intervention; Rate; Reporting; Research; Risk; Rural; Social Work; Structure; Substance abuse problem; Testing; Translating; United States; United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; base; commercialization; cost; court; divorce/separation; drug abuse prevention; experience; high school; improved; intervention program; parental involvement; programs; psychologic; skills; social; usability

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Each year about 2 percent of currently married couples divorce in the United States (Amato and Irving, 2006). With just over half of these divorces involving minor children, more than 1 million children annually experience parental divorce. While most children whose parents divorce enter adulthood within normal ranges of adjustment, up to 30 percent exhibit social and psychological problems into adulthood (Amato, 2003). These problems include an increased likelihood of using marijuana, alcohol, cigarettes and other illicit substances (Neher and Short, 1998; Suh, Schutz, and Johanson, 1996). SAMHSA- and NIDA- supported studies have pinpointed many family-related factors that predict increased risk of substance abuse, including high parental conflict and low levels of parental involvement (Guo et al., 2002; Hawkins, Catalano, and Miller, 1992; Office of National Drug Control Policy, n.d; Robertson, David, and Rao, 2003). Thus, key targets for drug-use prevention and intervention programs include reducing parental conflict and increasing parental involvement (Guo et al., 2002). These targets parallel factors associated with enhancing children's adjustment to divorce and goals and content of Children in the Middle (CIM), an evidence-based program for divorcing/separating parents. The primary aim of this project is to launch and evaluate on-line English and Spanish versions of CIM, currently a group intervention. Studies on CIM Group format indicate that it is successful in reducing parental conflict, improving parental communication, reducing child exposure to parental conflict, reducing the rate of legal re-litigation, and facilitating non-residential parental access to children (Arbuthnot and Gordon, 1995, 1996; Arbuthnot, Kramer, and Gordon, 1997). Phase I will examine the feasibility of an inexpensive, easily accessible online program to be appealing, comprehensible, and useful to parents; to test the use of online measures to document changes in parents' knowledge of factors associated with divorce adjustment and avoidance of substance abuse; and to determine the extent to which this intervention reduces reported parental conflict, increases parental involvement, and increases parents' initiation of conversations about substance use with their children. To accomplish these goals parents in a rural US county will be assigned to either CIM Group or CIM Online and invited to participate in the study. By developing and launching CIM Online the long- term goal is to provide parents and professionals greater access to this program. Project Narrative: During separation and divorce, children often are exposed to increased parental conflict and decreased parental involvement, placing them at increased risk of substance abuse and social and psychological problems. This project will evaluate the feasibility of an online version of Children in the Middle, a skills-based intervention that has been shown to effectively reduce parental conflict and promote parental involvement with children, to address these factors for separating/divorcing parents.

描述(由申请人提供)：在美国，每年约有2%的已婚夫妇离婚(Amato和Irving，2006)。在这些离婚案件中，刚刚超过一半涉及未成年子女，每年有100多万儿童经历父母离婚。虽然大多数父母离婚的孩子在正常的适应范围内进入成年期，但高达30%的孩子在成年期表现出社会和心理问题(Amato，2003)。这些问题包括使用大麻、酒精、香烟和其他非法物质的可能性增加(Neher and Short，1998；Suh，Schutz和Johanson，1996)。SAMHSA和NIDA支持的研究已经准确地指出了许多与家庭有关的因素，这些因素预测了药物滥用风险的增加，包括高父母冲突和低水平的父母参与(Guo等人，2002；Hawkins，Catalano和Miller，1992；国家药物管制政策办公室，N.D.；Robertson，David和Rao，2003)。因此，药物使用预防和干预方案的关键目标包括减少父母冲突和增加父母参与(郭美美等人，2002年)。这些目标针对的是与增强子女对离婚的适应有关的平行因素以及中间儿童(CIM)的目标和内容，CIM是一个针对离婚/分居父母的循证计划。该项目的主要目的是推出和评估CIM的在线英语和西班牙语版本，目前这是一种团体干预。对CIM Group Format的研究表明，CIM Group Format在减少父母冲突、改善父母沟通、减少儿童暴露在父母冲突中、降低法律再诉讼率以及促进非居民父母接触儿童方面取得了成功(Arbuthnot and Gordon，1995,1996；Arbuthnot，Kramer，and Gordon，1997)。第一阶段将研究一个廉价、易于访问的在线项目对父母有吸引力、可理解和有用的可行性；测试在线测量的使用，以记录父母对与离婚调整和避免药物滥用相关的因素的了解的变化；并确定这种干预措施在多大程度上减少了报告的父母冲突，增加了父母的参与，并增加了父母与孩子开始关于药物使用的对话。为了实现这些目标，美国农村地区的父母将被分配到CIM小组或CIM Online，并被邀请参与这项研究。通过开发和推出CIM Online，长期目标是为家长和专业人士提供更多接触这一计划的机会。项目简介：在分居和离婚期间，儿童经常面临父母冲突增加和父母参与减少的情况，使他们面临更大的药物滥用风险以及社会和心理问题。该项目将评估“中间儿童”网络版本的可行性，这是一种以技能为基础的干预措施，已被证明能有效地减少父母冲突，促进父母与儿童的接触，以解决导致父母分居/离婚的这些因素。