Table 1.

Guidelines topics, corresponding subsections of the parenting scale and personalized feedback report, title of interactive modules, outline of content, and rationale for their inclusion.

Guidelines topic	Corresponding subsection of the parenting scale and feedback report	Title of interactive module	Outline of content	Rationale for inclusion
You can reduce your child’s risk of developing depression and clinical anxiety	N/Aa; Not included in parenting scale or feedback report	N/A; No module on this topic	Psychoeducation about the role of parents in the prevention of adolescent depression and anxiety	Endorsed by experts
Establish and maintain a good relationship with your teenager	Your relationship with your teenager	Connect	Acknowledges the challenge of connecting with adolescent children, and provides specific tips on how to do this	Sound research evidence that parental “warmth” is protective against both anxiety and depression; endorsed by experts
Be involved and support increasing autonomy	Your involvement in your teenager’s life	Nurture roots and inspire wings	Helps parents establish the important balance between staying involved and interested in their adolescent’s life, while encouraging increasing age-appropriate autonomy	Sound research evidence that overinvolvement is a risk factor for depression, and autonomy granting and monitoring are protective factors; endorsed by experts
Encourage supportive relationships	Your teenager’s relationships with others	Good friends, supportive relationships	Provides strategies for parents to support their adolescent’s social skills development	Emerging evidence of parental encouragement of sociability is associated with less adolescent anxiety; endorsed by experts
Establish family rules and consequences	Your family rules	Raising good kids into great adults: establishing family rules	Highlights the importance of consistent and clear boundaries for adolescent behaviors, and provides specific strategies to establish these	Emerging evidence of the association between inconsistent discipline and depression; endorsed by experts
Minimize conflict in the home	Your home environment	Calm versus conflict	Addresses the need for adaptive conflict management between parents and between parent and adolescent, and provides specific strategies to do these	Sound evidence that interparental conflict and aversiveness (including parent-adolescent conflict) are risk factors for both depression and anxiety; endorsed by experts
Encourage good health habits	Health habits	Good health habits for good mental health	Provides strategies to help parents encourage good health habits in their adolescent, including a healthy diet, physical activity, good sleep habits, and abstinence from alcohol and drugs	Endorsed by experts; evidence that these health habits are associated with risk for depression and anxiety
Help your teenager to deal with problems	Dealing with problems in your teenager’s life	Partners in problem solving	Provides strategies for parents to help their adolescent develop good problem solving and stress management skills	Endorsed by experts
Help your teenager to deal with anxiety	Coping with anxiety	From surviving to thriving: helping your teenager deal with anxiety	Provides strategies for parents to help their adolescent manage their everyday anxiety	Sound evidence that overprotective, anxious parenting is associated with both anxiety and depression in adolescents; endorsed by experts
Encourage professional help seeking when needed	Getting help when needed	When things aren’t okay: getting professional help	Helps parents understand what depression and anxiety problems can look like in adolescents, and what they can do if their adolescent is or becomes unwell	Endorsed by experts; evidence that parents are important conduits to young people seeking professional help for mental health problems
Don’t blame yourself	Don’t blame yourself (not included in parenting scale, included in feedback report for all parents)	N/A; No module on this topic	Aims to dispel guilt or self-blame in parents	Endorsed by experts

^aN/A: not applicable.