Aggressive behaviors are common during adolescence. In Greece, adolescents and their families experience a severe and enduring recession with adverse implications on mental health outcomes. This study aimed to examine the correlation of adolescent’s aggressive behavior and economic factors. The Buss– Perry Aggression Questionnaire (AQ) and three questions of the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale were administrated to a sample of 2159 students of the Greater Athens Metropolitan Area. Students that during the previous four weeks had experienced household food insecurity (anxiety- uncertainty about food, insufficient food quality or insufficient food intake) or their pocket money decreased within the last month scored on average significantly higher in the AQ compared to their counterparts who did not. The shortage in basic goods due to the actual Greek economic crisis seems to be related to aggressive behaviors during adolescence and we should take it into account in the clinical practice.

Parenting processes take place at the level of the family unit. Existing longitudinal studies are increasingly critiqued for producing results that are unrelated to the actual causal mechanisms at the level of individuals or individual families (Hamaker, Kuiper, & Grasman, 2015). In fact, some studies on parenting have addressed this concern (e.g., Keijsers, 2015; Smetana, Villalobos, Rogge, & Tasopoulos-Chan, 2010) which provides the intriguing suggestion that inferences based on research focusing at the group level (e.g., regression model), may be different from, or even contradictory to, the actual parenting processes at the level of individual families.

This symposium contribution applies novel Random-Intercept Cross-lagged panel models (Hamaker, Kuiper, & Grasman, 2015) on the link of privacy invasive parenting with adolescent secretive behaviours, to come to better estimates of how parenting operates within families. By extending a standard cross-lagged panel model, to distinguish the between-person from the within-person effects, this novel method allows to critically evaluate whether (H1) there are indeed positive effects of privacy invasive parenting on secrecy at the level of a family unit.

Dutch adolescents (n =244, mean age = 14.07, 40% boys) reported three times on perceived parental privacy invasion and secrecy from parents.

The standard cross-lagged panel model on adolescent-perceived privacy invasion and secrecy confirmed earlier studies (e.g. Hawk et al, 2013) that privacy invasive parenting predicts increased secretive behaviours over time. However, RI-CLPM, designed to improve causal inferences show a different pattern. The positive between-person correlation confirmed earlier work that in families with more secrets, more privacy invasive behaviours occur. Within-persons, however, children were more secretive in periods with lower levels privacy invasion (significant correlated change).

In contrast to inferences in earlier work, secrecy was related to decreased privacy invasion within families. Findings of standard cross-lagged panel models may thus be opposing to the processes operating within families.

Introduction : Neglectful and/or abusive parenting is a major risk factor for the infant development. Early intensive treatment may lessen the risk. The most frequent therapeutic obstacle is poor parental compliance. We developed a treatment model based on the intensive provision of support to parents combined with attachment-based guidance.
Method : 50 high -risk families were recruited in two French and Israeli Infant Mental Health units and were enrolled in a parent-infant group and individual parent-child psychotherapy. No control group was available due to ethical limitations. Each case is its own control. The infant’s developmental status, the quality of the parent infant interaction and the level of parental psychopathology were assessed at the beginning and the end of treatment (DC 0-3, CGI, BITSEA, SCL 90R, IA, PIRGAS, CIB, HOME).
Results : Despite significant dropout, the therapeutic alliance was better than expected in this type of population. The child’s developmental status and the quality of interaction improved significantly. Girls improved more than boys (p= 0,044) for PIRGAS, and the child’s outcome was inversely correlated with the number of risks factors (p<0,05).
Conclusion : Despite limitations, the intensive therapeutic approach appears promising in treating and preventing very high risk infants, and may prevent child out of home placement.

The Semente Project, developed by the Psychiatric Department (PD) of Fernando Fonseca Hospital (funded by EEA Grants), intends to implement a mental health promotion program for Children of parents with mental Illness (COPMI), a group which has been identified in several studies in the last 40 years as more vulnerable, proving to have a strong association between parental mental illness and the increase of psychiatric risk in their children. The Psychiatric Department’s population is characterized with high social risk factors and high rate of migrants. The PD has a strong community implementation, provides an easy access to COPMI and includes a Child Psychiatric Unit (CPT) integrated in the service – fundamental aspects to the implementation of the present project. This project started in April 2015 with the definition of the program and its implementation targets 3 levels of intervention: 1) Universal – health promotion for all the children of the patients, identified and evaluated for their situation; 2) Selective – prevention for cases with higher risk, providing interventions focusing in the child and family, such as Child Talk, Family Talk, Family Group Conference and Support Groups for children; 3) Specific interventions – early identification and treatment of psychopathology in child and adolescents by the CPT. For the intervention, the professionals received training in the preventive interventions with families and started to widen the goals of their work, focusing not only in treating mental illness but also on promoting mental health in COPMI families. In conclusion, this project introduced a new paradigm of intervention in the Psychiatric Department, increasing the skills of the professionals and their awareness to families needs, investing in the reinforcement of patient’s parental skills and in the enlargement of protective factors for COPMI.

Objective: The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between parental differential treatment and aggression among adolescences.. It was hypothesized that there is likely to be positive relationship between negative parental differential treatment aspects (negative affective quality and negative control) and aggression and there is likely to be negative relationship between positive parental differential treatment aspects (positive affective quality, support and Fostering independence) and aggression.
Method: Survey was conducted with 150 school students (N=150) including 75 girls and 75 boys of 9th and 10th classes. The Parental Differential Treatment Questionnaires (PDT-Q; Young, 2011) and Buss & Perry Aggression Scale (BPAQ; Buss & Perry, 1982) was used to assess parental differential treatment and aggression.
Results: Results indicated that there was a positive relationship between negative parental differential treatment aspects (negative affective quality and negative control) and aggression. The result also shows that positive relationship between positive parental differential treatment aspects (fostering independence) and aggression.
Conclusion: Parents differential treatment with their children negatively effects children’s emotions, in terms of development of aggression in them
Keywords: parental differential treatment, aggression, negative affective quality, positive affective quality, fostering independence.

Introduction
We present data from a project drawing on behavioural family therapy principles to train early intervention professionals to use a whole family intervention with families with parental mental illness (PMI) identified under the United Kingdom’s “Troubled Families” initiative. These families exhibit several factors identified as key problems in UK social policy: school disengagement, crime, drug and alcohol misuse, socio-economic marginalisation and unemployment.
Method
75 professionals were trained in an eight-session protocol to work with families with PMI in Leicestershire, UK. These professionals then implemented this protocol in their work with families over the following six months. Data were collected via pre- and post-training questionnaires, pre- and post-intervention questionnaires, and interviews with family members and focus groups with professionals.
Results
Results show positive impacts on professionals in raising awareness of the impacts of PMI on families with multiple problems and in increasing their skills in addressing these impacts. Initial results from families paint a complex picture of intersecting challenges but there are indications here too that interventions such as this can have positive impacts.
Conclusion
We conclude by exploring the implications of both the positive results and the complex lives of families for developing and implementing future interventions and training for professionals working with families with multiple challenges.