Description
Parents and carers of young people with high-prevalence mental disorders like depression and anxiety disorders often feel left out of their adolescent's treatment. This is despite the burgeoning research evidence indicating that there are key factors associated with adolescents' recovery process that parents can potentially modify or influence, within the family environment. The Therapist-assisted Online Parenting Strategies (TOPS) program was developed to fill this gap in youth mental health services. Preliminary evaluations have shown that TOPS is acceptable, feasible, and associated with improvements in parenting competencies, parental self-efficacy, parent-adolescent attachment, parental psychological distress, and family functioning. We have partnered with headspace, the national youth mental health foundation, to implement and evaluate TOPS as part of their family-inclusive services. This provides an invaluable opportunity for PhD students to be involved in the real-world implementation and evaluation of an evidence-based online parenting intervention in national youth mental health services.
Essential criteria:
Minimum entry requirements can be found here: https://www.monash.edu/admissions/entry-requirements/minimum
Keywords
digital health, parenting support, youth mental health, implementation
School
School of Psychological Sciences » The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health
Available options
PhD/Doctorate
Honours
Time commitment
Full-time
Top-up scholarship funding available
No
Physical location
Monash Clayton Campus
Co-supervisors
Assoc Prof
Glenn Melvin
(External)
Prof
Patrick Olivier