Tuning in to Teens (TINT)
Program/Intervention Name
Category
Family Functioning, Parenting Skills - Training and Enhancement, Social/emotional functioning, Conflict management, Problem solving, Decision making and self-esteem, Academic performance/functioning and achievement, Attachment Interventions, Child Mental Health - externalizing
Program/Intervention Description
Tuning in to Teens (TINT) is a 7 session emotion coaching program designed to proactively increase parent’s capacity to understand and respond effectively to their youth’s emotions and to through that enhanced capacity improve the emotional competence of their youth. Such improvements in emotional competence have been correlated with a number of positive outcomes and have been shown to strengthen the attachment between the dyad (Havighurst, Kehoe & Harley, 2015). Under the supervision of the purveyor, the model will be adapted to ensure that the curriculum addresses the special dynamics common to families formed by adoption and guardianship
Intervention Target Population Identified (Age Group)
Parent/Adult, 13-17
Program Goals/Outcomes
Increase parents' awareness/regulation of their own emotions and improve their emotional well-being; Reduce parents' dismissive or critical reactions to adolescents emotions; Increase parents' emotion coaching (i.e., supportive, scaffolding responses to emotions) skills with their adolescents; Improve parent-adolescent relationships and reduce conflict; Promote emotional competence in adolescents; Reduce emotional and behavioral difficulties in adolescents
QIC Target Group
General - 3
QIC Adoption/Guardianship Relevance Levels
LEVEL 2: Adapted for Adoption or Guardianship
LEVEL 4: Foster Care
LEVEL 6: General Population
Intervention is being evaluated in a project site
QIC level of Evidence
LEVEL 2: Supported by Research
