Common use of Future Research Clause in Contracts

Future Research. ‌ A review of the role of fathers in the development and treatment of child emotional disorders found that fathers have a significant and distinctive role to play in children’s mental health (▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇, 2008). As few fathers participated, a comparison of mothers’ and fathers’ responses was unavailable; however an examination of paternal and maternal perspectives is important for future studies. The proposed model assumes that the way in which parents speak about their child in the FMSS reflects their interactions with the child on a day-to-day basis. This assumption is also reflected in clinical settings; ▇▇▇▇▇ et al. (2002) found that parent criticism (as measured using the CFI) was associated with independent ratings of perceived parent maltreatment potential by clinicians. Support for the association between daily interactions and EE ratings is supported in the literature. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and colleagues (2004) found that criticism, but not EOI, was related to observed parent-child interactions. It should be noted that this is not necessarily always the case however (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, 1995), and future research is needed to test the extent to which EE relates to actual parenting behaviour and aspects of the parent-child relationship. The current results, and evidence from previous literature, indicates that parental appraisals of the problem as threatening, parent mood and high EE are inter-related variables that have the potential to make a meaningful impact on our knowledge and treatment of parenting problems and child difficulties. Prospective or experimental designs are required to determine the relationship between EE in the parent-child dyad and parent psychosocial aspects. The Cognitive Model of Caregiving proposes that cognitive and affective changes will occur as a result of caring (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 2010), however the current data do not exclude the possibility that parents had pre-existing affective disturbance. Pre-existing mood difficulties have been shown to increase parental burden of caregiving (▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 1998). Causal relationships could be investigated through longitudinal, prospective designs in non-clinical samples. For example, prospective research designs are needed to test the impact of pre-existing parental affective disturbance on the subsequent development of child difficulties, parent parents’ use of less adaptive coping responses, threatening problem appraisals and available social support. Future research can also help to identify mediational relationships between parent and child factors. The mechanisms that link parent appraisals to affective disturbance, and those that link affective disturbance to EE, need to be explored. Future research can build upon the current results in contributing to the systematic evaluation of the potential benefit of combining parent affective and attributional approaches with behavioural interventions. Empirical evidence is needed to measure changes in parent mood, appraisals, coping and EE, before and after receiving interventions that combine cognitive and behavioural targets. Comparisons with control groups, and behavioural-only interventions, will help to further tease apart the specific contribution of adding affective and attributional aspects to parent treatment.