Problem and Objective

Transition to adulthood for young people with (IDD) is challenging for both youth and parents. Prospection, an important human adaptive tool and critical for independent living, involves constructing, encoding, and remembering the future. It may be jointly enacted between parents and young people as they discuss the future. This study identified and described evidence of prospective content in parent-youth conversations about the transition to adulthood.

Method

This study involved the content analysis is of eight parent-youth conversations about this transition. Two mother-daughter, three father-daughter, and three mother-son dyads, representing a range of IDD diagnoses, provided 790 min of joint conversations and reflection on them. These conversations were examined for the following characteristics of prospection: simulation, reasoning about counterfactuals, constructing multiple possible futures, and episodic memory of the past.

Findings

Among the four characteristics, simulation and episodic memory of the past were used most frequently and reasoning about counterfactuals the least. Giving advice and scaffolding were additional strategies that emerged from the data.

Conclusion

Identifying how prospection may be fostered in joint parent-youth conversations provides a step toward future research.

中文翻译：

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向成年过渡：针对智力或发育障碍 (IDD) 的年轻人的父母与青少年联合对话中的预期内容

问题和目标

患有 (IDD) 的年轻人向成年期过渡对青少年和父母来说都是一项挑战。展望是一种重要的人类适应性工具，对独立生活至关重要，它涉及构建、编码和记忆未来。它可能是父母和年轻人在讨论未来时共同制定的。本研究确定并描述了父母与青少年关于过渡到成年的对话中预期内容的证据。

方法

这项研究涉及的内容分析是关于这种转变的八次父母与青少年的对话。代表一系列 IDD 诊断的两个母女、三个父女和三个母子对提供了 790 分钟的共同对话和反思。对这些对话的以下特征进行了检查：模拟、反事实推理、构建多个可能的未来以及对过去的情景记忆。

发现

在这四个特征中，过去的模拟和情景记忆使用频率最高，反事实推理最少。提供建议和搭建脚手架是从数据中得出的额外策略。

结论

确定如何在父母与青少年的联合对话中培养前景，为未来的研究迈出了一步。