This report calls on the nation—its leaders, its mental health research and service provision
agencies, its schools, its primary care medical systems, its community-based organizations …

The last decade has brought important advances in the area of children's mental health,
including a concerted focus on building a scientific base for understanding the mental health …

Engaging and retaining families in mental health prevention and intervention programs is
critically important to insure maximum public health impact. We evaluated randomized …

Objective. Depression in parents is a prevalent and impairing illness that is encountered
frequently in medical practice. Children of depressed parents are at risk for psychopathology …

Despite the potential of parent training as a prevention and behavioral family intervention
strategy, there are a number of important issues related to implementation (eg, recruitment …

Evidence-based preventive interventions developed over the past two decades represent
great potential for enhancing public health and well-being. Research confirming the limited …

The need for better access to evidence-based parenting interventions is widely recognized,
as few families actually participate in parenting programs. A public health approach that …

An individual's capacity to self-regulate their cognitions, emotions and actions is an
important life skill and emergent developmental competency for both children and parents …

Low levels of enrollment and attendance in parent training programs present major
problems for researchers and clinicians. The literature on enrollment and attendance in …

An intervention was developed to promote parent involvement with ethnic minority families
of children attending Head Start preschool programs. Two hundred eighty-eight …