Improving family mental health in early childhood education

The goals of this study include: (1) to adapt an intervention designed to improve positive affect through qualitative focus groups with key partners (i.e., parents and early childhood education [ECE] staff), and (2) to pilot the resulting intervention with parents in the ECE program. Associations between parental affect, mental health, parenting, and child outcomes will be examined. This study is funded by a grant from the Rhode Island Foundation (PI: Highlander).