Increasing Parents’ Understanding of Emotions in Children with Developmental Language Disorder
Citation
Durgungoz, F. C., & St Clair, M. C. (2024, August). Enhancing Parental Understanding of Emotions in Children with Developmental Language Disorder: An Online Parent-Led Intervention Program. In Healthcare (Vol. 12, No. 16, p. 1571). MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12161571
Key terms that are in this paper
·Emotional awareness - being able to label, process and express emotions
Aim of the paper
·Emotional awareness is important for social situations, like talking to friends.
·Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) can struggle with labelling, processing and expressing emotions.
·If children struggle to communicate their feelings, this may lead to behavioural issues.
·Parents play an important role in shaping their children’s emotional abilities.
·Currently, there are no programs focused on helping parents of children with DLD with emotional awareness.
· This study tested an online emotion recognition program with parents.
· It aimed to explore parents’ perspectives of emotional awareness.
· The researchers looked at changes in parents’ beliefs over time.
· To do this, the study looked at parents’ questionnaire responses. It also carried out interviews with parents.
What was found
· After the program, parents rated their child’s emotion recognition skills as more important. This was shown by their questionnaire responses.
·In interviews, parents shared that they saw emotional support as more important after the program.
·The program increased parents’ awareness of the importance of emotion recognition
·It also made parents more aware of emotion-focused communication
·Parents were more aware of including talk about emotions in everyday life.
What does this mean?
·Using interviews allowed the researchers to understand the parent’s thoughts about the program.
·All the parents that took part improved their understanding of supporting their child’s emotional skills.
·This study shows the importance of programs which help parents to understand emotion recognition.
·Parents that participated actively in the program benefitted the most from it.
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