The four empirical studies in the dissertation "Parents as Agents of Change" aimed to take the first steps in filling the knowledge gap for parental empowerment in raising children with behavioral problems during and after the family-centered treatment IFT. The studies were conducted at Pactum, a Dutch youth care organization that offers family support, family preservation services, residential care, and foster care to children and adolescents (0-23 years old) and their families located in the East of the Netherlands. We obtained the research data largely from the system of Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM via BergOp: https://www.bergop.info/) that is used at Pactum to collect information about clients and treatment outcomes in a systematic manner. The standardized way of gathering client data is consistent with the actual trend towards quality care in Dutch youth services (see for example https://www.sejn.nl/lerende- databank-jeugd/). Specific client data (e.g., backgrounds of families and professional support) were extracted from Care4.

The included dataset used for this dissertation contains SPSS and MPlus data, syntaxes and output of the four empirical studies. Also the publications of these studies are attached. For more information, see the attached document: "Parents as Agents of Change [Description Data collection, analyses and files [data, syntaxes and output].doc".