@article{ref1,
title="The role of family functioning in parenting practices of court-involved youth",
journal="Journal of Adolescence",
year="2018",
author="Tolou-Shams, Marina and Brogan, Leah and Esposito-Smythers, Christianne and Healy, Meredith G. and Lowery, Ashley and Craker, Lacey and Brown, Larry K.",
volume="63",
number="",
pages="165-174",
abstract="Court-involved youth engage in risky sex behaviors at higher rates than non-offending peers and are at particular risk for adverse sexual health outcomes. Parenting practices, such as parent-child sexual communication and parental monitoring, may protect court-involved youth from engaging in risky sexual behavior. Parent psychological distress and family dysfunction may, however, compromise parenting practices for court-involved youth. This study examined associations among parent mental health symptoms, family functioning, and parenting practices within 157 parent-youth dyads who were court-referred for mental health treatment. <br><br>RESULTS revealed that greater parent mental health symptoms were directly related to greater family dysfunction and indirectly associated with poorer parental monitoring through worse family functioning. <br><br>FINDINGS suggest that directly addressing parent mental health needs in family-based adolescent sexual health programming for court-involved youth may be effective in improving parent-child relationships and family processes that support long term sexual health outcomes for adolescents.<br><br>Copyright © 2018 The Foundation for Professionals in Services for Adolescents. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.  Keywords: Juvenile justice <p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0140-1971",
doi="10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.12.016",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.12.016"
}