Engaging parents in preventive programs for adolescent mental health

Preventive parenting programs have been demonstrated to decrease the risk of adolescent mental health problems. Despite this, recruitment and engagement rates in these programs are low, which could lead to an underreporting of the effectiveness of these programs and parents not adequately developing the key skills required to prevent mental health problems in their adolescent. We propose a framework for understanding parental initial engagement using a socio‐ecological lens, by considering a variety of factors that apply across several levels: intrapersonal, interpersonal, organizational, community, and public policy. Implications of this conceptual framework and future directions for research and practice are then discussed

Conceptual framework · Developmental psychology · Interpersonal communication · Intrapersonal communication · Mental health · Psychiatry · Public health · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Early Childhood Education and Development · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology

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