Parent-child relationships during parenting programmes: A feasibility pilot study of the Contextualising and Learning in Mental Health Support App.
Little is known about how parent-child dynamics change when parents engage in parenting intervention programmes. To explore this, the Contextualising and Learning in Mental Health Support (CALMS) app was developed to capture daily parent-reports of these key family dynamics. This small-scale pilot s...
| Publicado en: | Clinical Child Psychology & Psychiatry Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 865 - 874 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Oct2025
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