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| | RIA: Research in Brief - July/August 2001 |
 | | These investigators speculated that if parents received training in more effective coping skills they might be able to relieve their own emotional distress and impact favorably on the adolescent’s behavior. |
 | | At each time period, parents were measured on their coping skills as assessed on the PSI, their coping in recent encounters with the teen, their emotional distress, their communication with the adolescent, and the number of days the adolescent used alcohol, marijuana, and other illicit drugs over the previous 50 days. |
 | | Second, the skill training intervention was not compared to an alternate intervention, so it is unknown whether the findings were due to program content, or to less relevant factors (e.g., attention from a therapist). |
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