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Coding Dyadic Behavior in Caregiver–Child Interaction from a Clinical Psychology Perspective: How Should Multiple Instruments and Outcomes Be Dealt with?
The experiences children have in the interactions with their caregivers influence their developmental outcomes. To target caregiving and optimize intervention effects, the assessment of caregiver–child interactions is highly relevant for families affected by parental mental disorders. Behavioral obs...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10670483/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38002856 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10111765 |
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description | The experiences children have in the interactions with their caregivers influence their developmental outcomes. To target caregiving and optimize intervention effects, the assessment of caregiver–child interactions is highly relevant for families affected by parental mental disorders. Behavioral observation is a widely used method for assessing family dynamics, and the literature offers a wide variety of instruments with which to code such data. However, a structured overview of behavioral observation instruments (BOIs) is lacking, and the multitude of types of dyadic behaviors (DBs) assessed within each BOI are complicating their application. We aim to provide an overview of the BOIs applied to families affected by mental disorders and suggest a DB taxonomy that may be used across BOIs. We first conducted a systemic literature search to identify the most frequently used BOIs and the DBs they capture in clinical psychology. Second, we asked 13 experts to sort DB terms based on perceived conceptual similarity and analyzed these results using multidimensional scaling. We found approximately 450 different terms for DBs, and we argue that DBs can be classified within two overarching dimensions, i.e., in terms of structure and in terms of reaction to a child’s signals. These efforts can facilitate the coding and application of BOIs in clinical practice. |
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spelling | pubmed-106704832023-10-31 Coding Dyadic Behavior in Caregiver–Child Interaction from a Clinical Psychology Perspective: How Should Multiple Instruments and Outcomes Be Dealt with? Jung, Anne Heinrichs, Nina Children (Basel) Article The experiences children have in the interactions with their caregivers influence their developmental outcomes. To target caregiving and optimize intervention effects, the assessment of caregiver–child interactions is highly relevant for families affected by parental mental disorders. Behavioral observation is a widely used method for assessing family dynamics, and the literature offers a wide variety of instruments with which to code such data. However, a structured overview of behavioral observation instruments (BOIs) is lacking, and the multitude of types of dyadic behaviors (DBs) assessed within each BOI are complicating their application. We aim to provide an overview of the BOIs applied to families affected by mental disorders and suggest a DB taxonomy that may be used across BOIs. We first conducted a systemic literature search to identify the most frequently used BOIs and the DBs they capture in clinical psychology. Second, we asked 13 experts to sort DB terms based on perceived conceptual similarity and analyzed these results using multidimensional scaling. We found approximately 450 different terms for DBs, and we argue that DBs can be classified within two overarching dimensions, i.e., in terms of structure and in terms of reaction to a child’s signals. These efforts can facilitate the coding and application of BOIs in clinical practice. MDPI 2023-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10670483/ /pubmed/38002856 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10111765 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Jung, Anne Heinrichs, Nina Coding Dyadic Behavior in Caregiver–Child Interaction from a Clinical Psychology Perspective: How Should Multiple Instruments and Outcomes Be Dealt with? |
title | Coding Dyadic Behavior in Caregiver–Child Interaction from a Clinical Psychology Perspective: How Should Multiple Instruments and Outcomes Be Dealt with? |
title_full | Coding Dyadic Behavior in Caregiver–Child Interaction from a Clinical Psychology Perspective: How Should Multiple Instruments and Outcomes Be Dealt with? |
title_fullStr | Coding Dyadic Behavior in Caregiver–Child Interaction from a Clinical Psychology Perspective: How Should Multiple Instruments and Outcomes Be Dealt with? |
title_full_unstemmed | Coding Dyadic Behavior in Caregiver–Child Interaction from a Clinical Psychology Perspective: How Should Multiple Instruments and Outcomes Be Dealt with? |
title_short | Coding Dyadic Behavior in Caregiver–Child Interaction from a Clinical Psychology Perspective: How Should Multiple Instruments and Outcomes Be Dealt with? |
title_sort | coding dyadic behavior in caregiver–child interaction from a clinical psychology perspective: how should multiple instruments and outcomes be dealt with? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10670483/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38002856 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10111765 |
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