Depressive Symptomatology and Program Efficacy: Examining a Program to Improve Communication in Community Families
In: Family court review: publ. in assoc. with: Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Band 56, Heft 2, S. 269-280
ISSN: 1744-1617
Destructive conflict is linked with adjustment problems over time, putting families at risk even when conflict behaviors have not reached levels of clinical concern. The Family Communication Project (FCP) is a psychoeducational program designed to improve communication in families with adolescent children. The present study examines the role of depression in program efficacy over time. Data were collected across four time points, assessing aspects of marital and family conflict, adolescent emotional security, and depressive symptoms in mothers, fathers, and adolescents. Results indicated improvements in conflict strategies for families who received the psychoeducational program (relative to controls), and point to a role of depressive symptomatology in adolescents in relation to treatment outcomes.