Race/Ethnicity, Parental Involvement, and Youth Mental Health Service Outcomes

描述（由申请人提供）：这项拟议研究的总体目标是调查的作用，家长参与的心理治疗，以学校为基础的心理健康服务的种族/民族多元化的青少年样本。研究人员和决策者强调了让多个利益攸关方参与治疗规划和实施的重要性，并强调了家庭变量的重要性。特别是，有证据表明，父母在服务利用方面发挥着至关重要的作用，促进治疗期间的改善，并在儿童和青少年治疗完成后保持这些变化。此外，研究人员假设，由于集体主义价值观更加强调家庭的作用，家庭更多地参与服务对少数民族可能特别重要。因此，涉及父母的文化上适当的治疗可能特别重要。不幸的是，实证研究的作用，父母参与治疗儿童的心理健康问题是稀缺的。因此，本研究旨在解决文献中的空白：1）检查治疗师对父母参与儿童心理治疗的偏好水平，父母对自己参与水平的偏好，以及父母的实际参与; 2）确定与父母参与心理治疗相关的背景和父母变量; 3）检查种族/民族，背景和父母变量，和父母参与之间的关系; 4）调查父母参与青少年心理治疗结果的影响;和5）检查种族/民族是否调节父母参与青少年心理治疗结果的影响。样本将包括260名青少年（12-19岁）谁接受了以学校为基础的心理健康服务，他们的父母，和他们的治疗师。次要数据分析将基于从基线访谈和12个月期间的4次随访访谈中收集的数据。研究工具测量首选和实际的父母参与，社会人口，上下文，和父母的变量，和治疗结果。分析将涉及描述性统计、方差分析、相关分析和回归。从拟议的研究结果可能有影响，以改善少数民族青少年的护理服务和质量;临床医生谁希望涉及少数民族的父母在他们的客户端的咨询可以应用研究结果，以指导他们在解决上下文和父母的因素，影响他们的参与。这项研究的结果可以为鼓励父母在孩子的心理健康治疗中发挥关键作用的干预措施的制定提供信息和促进。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of this proposed research is to investigate the role of parental involvement in psychotherapy in school-based mental health services for a racially/ethnically diverse sample of adolescents. Researchers and policy-makers have highlighted the significance of involving multiple stakeholders in treatment planning and implementation as well as emphasizing the importance of family variables. Particularly, evidence has shown that parents play a crucial role in service utilization, facilitating improvements during treatment, and maintaining these changes after treatment for children and adolescents is complete. In addition, researchers have hypothesized that greater family involvement in services may be especially important to ethnic minorities due to collectivistic values that place more emphasis on the role of family. Therefore, culturally appropriate therapy that involves parents may be particularly critical. Unfortunately, empirical research on the role of parental involvement in the treatment of children's mental health problems is scarce. Thus, the proposed research addresses gaps in the literature by aiming to: 1) examine the level of therapist preference for parental involvement in the child's psychotherapy, the parents' preference for their own level of involvement, and the parents' actual involvement; 2) identify contextual and parental variables associated with parental involvement in psychotherapy; 3) examine the relationship between race/ethnicity, contextual & parental variables, and parental involvement; 4) investigate the effect of parental involvement in youth psychotherapy outcomes; and 5) examine whether race/ethnicity moderates the effect of parental involvement on youth psychotherapy outcomes. The sample will consist of 260 adolescents (aged 12-19) who have received school-based mental health services, their parents, and their therapists. Secondary data analysis will be based on data collected from a baseline interview and four follow-up interviews over the course of 12 months. Research instruments measure preferred and actual parental involvement, sociodemographic, contextual, and parental variables, and treatment outcomes. Analysis will involve descriptive statistics, analysis of variance, correlational analysis and regression. The findings from the proposed study may have implications for improving the delivery and quality of care for ethnic minority adolescents; clinicians who wish to involve ethnic minority parents in their client's counseling could apply the research findings to guide them in addressing the contextual and parental factors that impact their involvement. The results from this study may inform and facilitate the development of interventions that encourage parents to play a key role in their child's mental health treatment.