Describe one or more potential implications of this work for your current or desired role in nursing research, practice, education, or leadership.

For nursing research, this work can be used to better understand the complexities of parent-child relationships as it relates to mental health. It can help inform future studies on topics such as effective interventions for parental/child issues, long-term effects of trauma, and whether there is a genetic component at play in predisposition towards relational problems.

In practice settings, the evidence gathered from this work can help nurses develop more informative assessments and treatment plans that are tailored to the specific needs of each patient. In an educational setting, it could be used as part of teaching modules focusing on family dynamics within healthcare contexts or serve as a cornerstone for other courses exploring human behavior.
From a leadership standpoint, nursing leaders will be equipped with valuable insights on how best to lead teams working in areas directly impacted by relational issues between parents and children; they’ll also have access to concrete data which they can use when advocating for changes in policies or systems at their respective institutions.