Ankie Menting
Utrecht University
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Clinical Psychology Review | 2013
Ankie Menting; Bram Orobio de Castro; Walter Matthys
The present meta-analytic review examined effectiveness of the Incredible Years parent training (IYPT) regarding disruptive and prosocial child behavior, and aimed to explain variability in intervention outcomes. Fifty studies, in which an intervention group receiving the IYPT was compared to a comparison group immediately after intervention, were included in the analyses. Results showed that the IYPT is an effective intervention. Positive effects for distinct outcomes and distinct informants were found, including a mean effect size of d=.27 concerning disruptive child behavior across informants. For parental report, treatment studies were associated with larger effects (d=.50) than indicated (d=.20) and selective (d=.13) prevention studies. Furthermore, initial severity of child behavior revealed to be the strongest predictor of intervention effects, with larger effects for studies including more severe cases. Findings indicate that the IYPT is successful in improving child behavior in a diverse range of families, and that the parent program may be considered well-established.
Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology | 2014
Ankie Menting; Bram Orobio de Castro; Leoniek Wijngaards-de Meij; Walter Matthys
Children of incarcerated mothers are considered at risk for disruptive behavior problems and later delinquency. Parenting may play a key role in this intergenerational transmission of delinquency. The present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Incredible Years parent training, enhanced with home visits, for (formerly) incarcerated mothers to prevent disruptive behavior problems in their 2- to 10-year-old children, by means of a nationwide randomized controlled trial. Mothers of 133 children (M age = 76.91 months; 48.9% boys) were assigned to an intervention, consisting of group sessions and individual home visits, or a no-intervention control group. The intervention yielded significant effects on parenting and child behavior for maternal report. Marginally significant effects on child behavior were found for teacher report. The results show short-term effectiveness of parent training for the high-risk and hard-to-reach population of (formerly) incarcerated mothers and their children.
European Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2016
Ankie Menting; Bram Orobio de Castro; Walter Matthys
Abstract Incarcerated mothers and their children may face a multitude of problems. To identify possible targets for intervention, more clarity is needed about characteristics of these children and their mothers. This study examined children’s life events, behaviour problems and social cognitions and mothers’ parenting behaviours as potential targets for intervention with mothers being released from incarceration, in the Netherlands with a culturally diverse sample. Participants were 121 children of mothers being released from incarceration and 63 children of comparison mothers from disadvantaged areas, without a history of incarceration. Children of mothers being released from incarceration were more disadvantaged in life events, had more behaviour problems, and their mothers’ parenting behaviours were characterized by lower involvement and poorer monitoring compared with children of comparison mothers. Suboptimal parenting behaviours of mothers being released from incarceration were statistically associated with children’s behaviour problems. Hence, these children face more difficulties that may contribute to problematic development than children from another at-risk population.
Parenting: Science and Practice | 2017
Ankie Menting; B. Orobio de Castro; Walter Matthys
SYNOPSIS Objective. The present study examines cognitive and emotional problems in mothers being released from incarceration. Design. Participants were 98 mothers who were about to be released or had just been released from incarceration, and 63 comparison mothers from disadvantaged areas with low socioeconomic status, both with young children. Mothers provided self-report data on parenting behaviors, cognitive distortions, depressive symptoms, and socioeconomic difficulties. Results. Mothers being released from incarceration reported less optimal parenting behaviors (i.e., less involvement and poorer monitoring) and higher levels of cognitive distortions and depressive symptoms than comparison mothers. Cognitive distortions and depressive symptoms were related to less optimal reported parenting behaviors. Conclusions. Cognitive distortions, depressive symptoms, and less optimal reported parenting behaviors may be factors in incarcerated and formerly incarcerated mothers, which might put their children at risk, beyond risks associated with low socioeconomic status.
Prevention Science | 2018
Patty Leijten; Maartje A. J. Raaijmakers; Leoniek Wijngaards; Walter Matthys; Ankie Menting; Maud Hemink-van Putten; Bram Orobio de Castro
Kind En Adolescent | 2015
Ankie Menting; Bram Orobio de Castro; Walter Matthys
Kind En Adolescent | 2018
Patty Leijten; Ankie Menting; Leoniek Wijngaards-de Meij; Maartje A. J. Raaijmakers; Walter Matthys; Bram Orobio de Castro
BMC Psychology | 2018
L.W. te Brinke; H. Schuiringa; Ankie Menting; Maja Deković; B. O. De Castro
Archive | 2015
Ankie Menting; G. Albrecht; B. Orobio de Castro
Archive | 2014
Ankie Menting; Bram Orobio de Castro