Domestic Violence: An Emotion Coaching Parenting Intervention

描述（由申请人提供）：众所周知，家庭暴力（DV）对儿童的心理健康有不利影响。然而，很少有干预措施已被开发的基础上，已被证明，以减少风险和提高应变能力的儿童暴露于家庭暴力的机制。我们最近发现，“情绪教练”缓冲儿童从DV的负面影响（卡茨和温德克纳尔逊，在新闻界）。当暴露于家庭暴力的儿童有父母进行情绪辅导时，他们表现出较少的行为问题。拟议的应用程序的目标是将这些基本的风险和弹性行为的研究结果转化为被殴打妇女的育儿干预。这与NIH PA-04-075《暴力和创伤的心理健康后果》的目标是一致的，该目标寻求由卫生部发起的与“将科学产生的信息转化和测试为临床应用、干预和服务.与暴力和创伤有关。“拟议应用的具体目标是：（1）开发一种基于情感辅导的育儿干预措施，以帮助受虐妇女提高其育儿技能;（2）开发治疗忠诚度、参与者满意度、对治疗技能的理解和掌握以及治疗师技能的衡量标准;（3）将这种新的干预措施和相关程序和措施手册化;（4）在6-12岁奥尔兹的母亲中对这种干预进行试点测试，这些母亲曾接触过DV，以及（5）通过检查观察到的结果的分布并获得干预效果大小的初步指标来评估后期临床试验的可行性。我们期望在家庭暴力中进行情绪辅导，可以改善亲子互动的质量，提高儿童的情绪调节能力（包括减少生理唤醒的能力），减少儿童的行为问题。有前途的研究结果将形成一个临床结果研究的研究建议的基础上，比较情绪辅导其他父母的家庭暴露于家庭暴力的治疗。家庭暴力对儿童的心理健康有不利影响。然而，很少有干预措施已经开发的基础上，已知的减少风险和提高应变能力的儿童暴露于家庭暴力的衍生机制。该应用程序将把基本的行为调查结果的风险和弹性到情感教练育儿干预受虐妇女。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): It has been well-established that domestic violence (DV) has detrimental effects on children's mental health. However, few interventions have been developed based on empirically-derived mechanisms that have been shown to reduce risk and increase resilience in children exposed to DV. We have recently discovered that "emotion coaching" buffers children from the negative effects of DV (Katz & Windecker-Nelson, in press). When children exposed to DV have parents who engage in emotion coaching, they show fewer behavior problems. The goal of the proposed application is to translate these basic behavioral findings on risk and resiliency into a parenting intervention for battered women. This is consistent with the goals of NIH PA-04-075, Mental Health Consequences of Violence and Trauma, that seeks investigator-initiated research related to the "translation and testing of scientifically generated information into clinical application, interventions and services...related to violence and trauma." Specific aims of the proposed application are to: (1) develop an empirically-based emotion coaching parenting intervention to help battered women improve their parenting skills; (2) develop measures of treatment fidelity; participant satisfaction, understanding and mastery of treatment skills; and therapist skill; (3) manualize this new intervention and associated procedures and measures;(4) pilot test this intervention with mothers of 6-12 year olds who have been exposed to DV, and (5) assess the feasibility of a later clinical trial by examining the distributions of outcomes observed and obtaining a preliminary indication of intervention effect size. We expect emotion coaching in face of DV to result in improvements in the quality of parent-child interaction, increase children's emotion regulation abilities (including their ability to reduce physiological arousal), and reduce child behavior problems. Promising findings would form the basis of a research proposal for a clinical outcome study comparing emotion coaching to other parenting treatments for families exposed to DV. Domestic violence has detrimental effects on children's mental health. However, few interventions have been developed based on empirically-derived mechanisms that are known to reduce risk and increase resilience in children exposed to DV. This application will translate basic behavioral findings on risk and resiliency into an emotion coaching parenting intervention for battered women.