Coping together to reduce internalized problems: an intevention for parents and children
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The parent-child relationship provides the foundation for children to develop adaptive coping and stress management skills. How parents cope with adversity is a predictor of children’s coping abilities. Childhood stressors have physical and psychological consequences that trigger coping, understood as a dynamic and adaptive response to stress. In Mexico, preschool children tend to use dysfunctional coping strategies, it could increase the likelihood to develop Internalized and externalized problems, also could be the result of parenting practices characterized by psychological control, devaluation and blame. This underscore, the importance of promoting interventions that provide coping strategies for both children and their caregivers, aimed at preventing and addressing internalized and externalized problems in children. The objective of this study is to evaluate the intervention «Afrontando Juntos», implemented with Mexican children from 4 to 6 years old in an urban area in the thern of Mexico City. This intervention involves parents and children with the goal of increasing functional coping and reducing internalized and externalized problems in children. Participants were divided into two groups: Experimental group that participated in 12 sessions with parents’ participation; and a comparison group where only children participate in 8 sessions without their parents. Initially, there were 26 participants, but only 18 children (9 in each group), completed the study. Results showed that children in the experimental group increased their functional coping skills and experienced significant reduction in emotional reactivity and sleep problems.
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