About this trial
Intervention efficacy will be evaluated via a randomized controlled trial in Indiana over 17 weeks with 250 dyads (i.e., divorcing/divorced/separated parents). Dyads will be randomized to business as usual (BAU) or BAU+PCF.
Compared to BAU, BAU+PCF will (a) increase parental self-efficacy, (b) decrease parental stress, (c) increase parental knowledge, (d) increase parental motivation to engage with the intervention, (f) increase the quality of parent-child relationships, and (g) improve parent-reported child stress and prosocial behaviors.
Parents with higher levels of conflict will be more responsive to parallel parenting, and increased parallel parenting among HIC dyads will lead to reductions in child adjustment problems.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
parents who have recently experienced (within the past 2 years) divorce or separation, or are currently divorcing or separating.
have children aged 4-12.
Dyadic recruitment (both parents).
identified by the court system as experiencing HIC.
Disqualifiers
None
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Putting Children First