Start Date
16-2-2022
Mentor
Diana Morelen
Description
Treatment resistance is a consistent impediment across psychological interventions. Specifically, the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences, and symptoms of depression, have both been posited to contribute to this phenomenon. This is noteworthy, particularly in parenting interventions, given that maternal ACEs and depression are predictors of suboptimal parenting outcomes and thus the risk factors that increase need for intervention may simultaneously be the very factors that impede with one’s intervention engagement. This study explored if this phenomenon replicates in Mom Power - a 10-week, trauma-informed, parenting skills group for at-risk mothers. A multiple linear regression was performed to predict intervention attendance (could range from 0-10) based on ACE score and maternal depression at pre-treatment for n = 66 mothers of young children (ages 0-5). The overall model was not significant F(2, 59) = 1.07, p = .35. Further, maternal ACE scores and depression symptoms only accounted for only 3.5% of the variance in intervention attendance. The authors propose that the trauma-informed Mom Power intervention may be addressing the treatment resistance of at-risk mothers, and that Mom Power effectively engages mothers despite ACE scores or depression symptoms.
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Exploration of Treatment Resistance in a Parenting Skills Group for At-Risk Mothers
Treatment resistance is a consistent impediment across psychological interventions. Specifically, the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences, and symptoms of depression, have both been posited to contribute to this phenomenon. This is noteworthy, particularly in parenting interventions, given that maternal ACEs and depression are predictors of suboptimal parenting outcomes and thus the risk factors that increase need for intervention may simultaneously be the very factors that impede with one’s intervention engagement. This study explored if this phenomenon replicates in Mom Power - a 10-week, trauma-informed, parenting skills group for at-risk mothers. A multiple linear regression was performed to predict intervention attendance (could range from 0-10) based on ACE score and maternal depression at pre-treatment for n = 66 mothers of young children (ages 0-5). The overall model was not significant F(2, 59) = 1.07, p = .35. Further, maternal ACE scores and depression symptoms only accounted for only 3.5% of the variance in intervention attendance. The authors propose that the trauma-informed Mom Power intervention may be addressing the treatment resistance of at-risk mothers, and that Mom Power effectively engages mothers despite ACE scores or depression symptoms.