SCT
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Self-Monitoring
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Parents and adolescents monitor their caloric intake, energy expenditure, and weight, using a tool of their choice.
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SCT
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Goal Setting
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Parents and adolescents set specific weight-loss goals together weekly, including intake, expenditure, and sedentary behavior goals.
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SCT
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Self-Regulation Skills
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Parents and adolescents learn to identify personal barriers, substitute healthier alternatives, and provide positive reinforcements.
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SDT & FST
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Communication Skills
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Parents and adolescents use positive communication strategies, including reflective listening, problem-solving, and shared decision-making, to discuss weight-loss behaviors.
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FST
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Parental Monitoring and Limit Setting
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Parents monitor and track adolescent self-monitoring and goals, set limits with adolescents around weight loss behaviors, and monitor implementation of family rules and rewards for adhering to weight-loss behaviors.
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SCT, SDT, & FST
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Social Support
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Adolescents use strategies for eliciting social support for weight-loss behaviors from parents. Parents provide adolescents with social support for weight-loss behaviors.
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SDT
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Autonomy Support
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Adolescents have choices and are provided with opportunities to give input. Parents seek input from adolescents and negotiate rules and behavior changes together. Families engage in shared decision-making.
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SCT
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Self-Efficacy
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Adolescents and parents have opportunities to practice and successfully master weight loss strategies.
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SDT
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Motivation
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Families provide input and build confidence in changing adolescent weight-loss behaviors.
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Cultural Tailoring
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Adaptation to Cultural Issues
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Families develop action plans for resolving cultural barriers to weight loss and parenting skill development as appropriate.
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