Benefits of a Brief, Youth-Directed Growth Mindset Intervention for Family Functioning and Parental Depression

Analyses examined whether a single-session, youth-directed intervention teaching growth personality mindsets reduced parental depression and family dysfunction in families of 96 youths with elevated internalizing difficulties. Compared to a supportive-therapy control, the intervention predicted three-month reductions in family dysfunction and parental depression. Increases in youth growth mindsets mediated these effects.