Innovation Research and Training, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
J Community Psychol. 2023 Nov;51(8):3216-3242. doi: 10.1002/jcop.23017. Epub 2023 Feb 25.
Parental incarceration is an adverse childhood experience that is associated with heightened risk for negative outcomes in youth. Mentoring programs seek to mitigate this risk by providing children of incarcerated parents (COIP) with a supportive relationship that fosters positive outcomes. The current study presents findings from a longitudinal evaluation of enhanced mentoring program practices designed for supporting COIP. One thousand three hundred and thirty-four COIP mentees, their parents or guardians, and their mentors were randomly assigned to receive either enhanced or business as usual (BAU) mentoring. Mentees who received enhanced mentoring demonstrated improved positive self-cognitions, and reduced internalizing behavior problems, intentions to use substances, and substance use, compared with youth who received BAU mentoring. The enhancements had no impact on the quality of mentoring relationships and the enhanced matches had shorter mentoring relationships compared with BAU matches. This evaluation demonstrates that the enhanced mentoring program practices for COIP had significant, positive impacts on outcomes for this special population of youth and suggests that enhanced practices tailored to COIP should be implemented throughout the duration of the mentoring relationship to be most effective.
父母监禁是一种不良的儿童经历，与青少年负面结果的风险增加有关。指导计划旨在通过为有监禁父母的儿童（COIP）提供支持性的关系来减轻这种风险，从而促进积极的结果。本研究介绍了一项针对增强型指导计划实践的纵向评估结果，该计划旨在为 COIP 提供支持。1334 名 COIP 被试、他们的父母或监护人以及他们的导师被随机分配接受增强型或常规（BAU）指导。与接受 BAU 指导的年轻人相比，接受增强型指导的被试表现出改善的积极自我认知，以及减少内化行为问题、使用物质的意图和物质使用。这些增强措施对指导关系的质量没有影响，与 BAU 匹配相比，增强匹配的指导关系更短。这项评估表明，针对 COIP 的增强型指导计划实践对这一特殊青年群体的结果产生了重大的积极影响，并表明针对 COIP 的增强型实践应在整个指导关系期间实施，以达到最佳效果。
