Institute for Educational Support for Behavior, Social-Emotional, and Psychomotor Development, University of Teacher Education in Special Needs, Zurich, Switzerland.
Sci Rep. 2024 Feb 29;14(1):4979. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-55689-z.
Emotion-focused parenting interventions have only rarely been evaluated systematically in Europe. This study investigates the effectiveness of "Tuning in to Kids" (TIK) from Australia delivered online in a randomized controlled trial. TIK is a six-week emotion-focused group parenting program that has shown to improve many aspects of parent emotion socialization as well as child problem behavior in several different countries across cultures. Parents (N = 141) of children between 3 and 6 years of age were included in the study and randomly assigned to an intervention and wait-list control group. The intervention was delivered online due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2021 (intervention group) and one year later (control group) in Switzerland. Parents' beliefs about emotions, their reported reactions to the child's negative emotions, family emotional climate, and child behavior (internalizing and externalizing) improved after the intervention and stayed better until the 6 months follow-up in the intervention group, but not in the wait-list controls. Adherence to the program was very high. This study shows that parent emotion socialization practice is changeable with small effects even on child behavior and even after online delivery. This possibly makes Tuning in to Kids a promising emotion-focused parenting intervention when delivered online as an interactive group webinar.
情感焦点式育儿干预措施在欧洲很少被系统评估。本研究通过随机对照试验调查了来自澳大利亚的“关注孩子”（TIK）在线干预的有效性。TIK 是一个为期六周的情感焦点式小组育儿计划，已在多个不同国家的文化中证明可以改善父母情感社会化的许多方面以及儿童的问题行为。该研究纳入了年龄在 3 至 6 岁之间的儿童的父母（N=141），并将他们随机分配到干预组和等待名单对照组。由于 2021 年春季全球 COVID-19 大流行，该干预措施在线上进行（干预组），而一年后（对照组）在瑞士进行。干预后，父母对情绪的信念、他们对孩子负面情绪的反应、家庭情绪氛围以及儿童的行为（内化和外化）得到改善，并且在干预组的 6 个月随访中仍然保持良好，而等待名单对照组则没有。对该计划的依从性非常高。本研究表明，即使在儿童行为方面，即使是在线交付，父母的情绪社会化实践也是可以改变的，并且效果很小。这使得“关注孩子”在线作为互动小组网络研讨会提供时成为一种有前途的情感焦点式育儿干预措施。
