Trial reportDevelopment and psychopathology2020
The long-term indirect effect of the early Family Check-Up intervention on adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms via inhibitory control.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Family Check-Up and Youth Suicide: Assessing Indirect Effects of Improving Self-Regulation and Reducing Depression in Promoting Long-Term Resilience.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2025Trial
- Inhibitory Control in Late Childhood as a Predictor of Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence and the Role of Social Context.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Trial
- The role of early intervention for adolescent mental health and polydrug use: Cascading mediation through childhood growth in the general psychopathology (p) factor.Developmental psychology · 2023Trial
- Effects of the Family Check-Up 4 Health on Parenting and Child Behavioral Health: A Randomized Clinical Trial in Primary Care.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Trial
- An early parenting intervention focused on enriched parent-child interactions improves effortful control in the early years of school.Child developmentTrial
- Childhood temperament types provide specificity over dimensions in predicting early adolescent symptoms of psychopathology: Genetic and environmental contributions.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026Article
- Annual Research Review: Beyond the target - understanding crossover effects in family-centered prevention.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Review
- Three-Arm Randomized Controlled Trial of Motivational Interviewing for Adolescent Drinking in Denmark.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2026Article
- Annual Research Review: Early conduct problems - precursors, outcomes, and etiology.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Review
- Extra-axial cerebrospinal fluid volumes from 6 to 24 months of age are associated with poorer executive function at school-age in children with and without autism.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2026Article
- Perceived parental encouragement on self-efficacy and resilience of Chinese college students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Co-occurrence Patterns and Transitions in Adolescents' Depressive Symptoms and Problematic Smartphone Use: The Roles of Social Support and Self-control.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Effects of Helicopter Parenting, Tiger Parenting and Inhibitory Control on the Development of Children's Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Leveraging bifactor modeling to test prospective direct and indirect effects of adolescent alcohol use and externalizing symptoms on the development of task-general executive functioning.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Intergenerational transmission of comorbid internalizing and externalizing psychopathology at age 11: Evidence from an adoption design for general transmission of comorbidity rather than homotypic transmission.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Risk for Childhood Depression: Role of Executive Functions.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2025Observational
- Investigating risk factor and consequence accounts of executive functioning impairments in psychopathology: an 8-year study of at-risk individuals in Brazil.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Paternal activation parenting and growth in children's inhibitory control across early childhood.Social development (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Development of temperament types from infancy to adolescence: Genetic and environmental influences with an economically and racially/ethnically diverse sample.Developmental psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
This study examined the long-term effects of a randomized controlled trial of the Family Check-Up (FCU) intervention initiated at age 2 on inhibitory control in middle childhood and adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems. We hypothesized that the FCU would promote higher inhibitory control in middle childhood relative to the control group, which in turn would be associated with lower internalizing and externalizing symptomology at age 14. Participants were 731 families, with half (n = 367) of the families assigned to the FCU intervention. Using an intent-to-treat design, results indicate that the FCU intervention was indirectly associated with both lower internalizing and externalizing symptoms at age 14 via its effect on increased inhibitory control in middle childhood (i.e., ages 8.5-10.5). Findings highlight the potential for interventions initiated in toddlerhood to have long-term impacts on self-regulation processes, which can further reduce the risk for behavioral and emotional difficulties in adolescence.
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