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Elena Hontoria Tuerk
Researcher at Medical University of South Carolina
Publications - 6
Citations - 357
Elena Hontoria Tuerk is an academic researcher from Medical University of South Carolina. The author has contributed to research in topics: Psychological intervention & Multisystemic therapy. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications receiving 319 citations. Previous affiliations of Elena Hontoria Tuerk include University of Virginia & Curry School of Education.
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Contact Between Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children: Assessing Parenting Stress
TL;DR: In another study, Houck et al. as mentioned in this paper found that higher levels of contact between mothers and their children were associated with reduced levels of parenting stress, and increased attachment and improved sense of parental competence.
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Parenting Programs for Incarcerated Parents Current Research and Future Directions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the implementation of parent training programs in prisons, which differ in their design and methods of s... and their focus on parent education and support for incarcerated parents.
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Improving the Emotional Adjustment and Communication Patterns of Incarcerated Mothers: Effectiveness of a Prison Parenting Intervention
TL;DR: In this paper, mothers at a state prison participated in an eight-session parenting class designed to help them manage the stress of separation from children and to improve communication patterns with children and home-caregivers.
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Comprehensive treatment for co-occurring child maltreatment and parental substance abuse: outcomes from a 24-month pilot study of the MST-Building Stronger Families program.
TL;DR: Preliminary outcomes from a pilot study of Multisystemic Therapy-Building Stronger Families support the viability of a more rigorous (i.e., randomized) evaluation of the MST-BSF model.
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Collaboration in Family Therapy
TL;DR: This article summarizes and illustrates the collaboration strategies used by several family therapies, such as the identification of strengths across multiple systems in the youth's social ecology and the maintenance of a family (versus a child) focus during treatment.