Table 1.
Intervention domain | Guidelines topic | Risk or protective factors covered | Example recommended parenting strategy |
Your relationship with [Child]a | Establish and maintain a good relationship with your teenager | Parental warmth, aversiveness, affection, emotional availability | Making time each day to ask [Child] about [his/her] day and what [he/she] has been doing, regardless of [his/her] response. |
Your involvement in [Child]’s life | Be involved and support increasing autonomy | Parental over-involvement, autonomy granting, monitoring | Gradually increasing [Child]’s responsibilities and independence over time to allow [him/her] to mature. |
[Child]’s relationships with others | Encourage supportive relationships | Parental encouragement of sociability | Take some time to talk through any social problems [Child] may have. |
Your family rules | Establish family rules and consequences | Consistency of discipline | Noticing when [Child] behaves well, and rewarding [him/her] with positive consequences (eg, praise or privileges). |
Your home environment | Minimize conflict in the home | Interparental conflict, parent-child conflict management, criticism, parental modeling of conflict management | Try not to argue with your partner if [Child] can hear. Frequent and intense conflict between parents increases a teenager’s risk of depression and clinical anxiety. |
Health habits | Encourage good health habits | Diet, physical activity, sleep hygiene (7 items); responding to alcohol or drug use (5 items) | Set an example for [Child] by having good health habits (ie, healthy diet, regular exercise, and responsible use of alcohol) yourself. |
Dealing with problems in [Child]’s life | Help your teenager to deal with problems | Problem solving, emotion regulation, stress management, modeling of problem solving approaches | When talking with [Child] about problems that [he/she] has dealt with, recognize and praise [his/her] problem-solving efforts (ie, what [he/she] did well when trying to solve the problem) rather than focusing on the outcome [he/she] achieved. |
Coping with anxiety | Help your teenager to deal with anxiety | Anxiety management (avoidance, exposure), modeling of anxiety, management strategies | Try not to step in to help [Child] at the first sign of any stress or anxiety, as the way you respond to [Child]’s anxiety may unintentionally increase [his/her] anxiety. Instead, let [him/her] try to manage the situation [himself/herself] and provide help if [he/she] asks you to or if the anxiety persists. |
Getting help with needed | Encourage professional help-seeking when needed | Professional help-seeking knowledge and behaviors (parent and child) | If you do notice a persistent change in [Child]’s mood or behavior: try to determine whether the change in mood or behavior is caused by a temporary situation or a more ongoing problem. |
aSquare brackets denote personalization with the adolescent’s name and gender.