The Role of Parents, Parenting and the Family Environment in Children’s Post-Disaster Mental Health
Abstract
There is widespread support for the hypothesis that, post-disaster, children's mental health is impacted--at least in part--via the impact on parents, parenting, parent-child interactions, and the family environment. To some degree, the enthusiasm with which this hypothesis is held outstrips the evidence examining it. The current paper critically evaluates the empirical evidence for this hypothesis and concludes that although limited (both in terms of number of existing studies and methodological flaws), the extant literature indicates some parent-related variables, as well as some aspects of the family environment are likely to constitute risk or protective factors for children. Given that parenting is modifiable, it is proposed that the identified parent- and family-related factors represent important therapeutic targets, and a universal post-disaster parenting intervention (Disaster Recovery Triple P) is described.
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Parental practices and coping measures affect children's post-disaster mental health.
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- Authors
- Cobham, V. E., McDermott, B., Haslam, D., & Sanders, M. R.
- Affiliations
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- James Cook University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Cobham, Vanessa E.
- Venue
- Current Psychiatry Reports
- Published
- 2016-04-16
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 53-53
- ISSN
- 1523-3812 (ISSN-L)
- 1535-1645
- OpenAlex
- W2339631823
- Cited by
- 238
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 18 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 50 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 10
- FWCI
- 1.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Current Psychiatry Reports (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ResearchOnline - JCU (James Cook University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Keywords
- disaster mental health, children, parenting, family environment, parent-child interaction, risk and protective factors, disaster recovery
- MeSH terms
- Child, Disasters, Humans, Mental Health, Parent-Child Relations, Parents, Parenting
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