Changing chaos

INTERVENTION: The household order intervention consists of four bi‐weekly coaching sessions for the parent with phone calls in the weeks in between, aimed at increasing order in the household (noise, material, organizational; based on Haines et al., 2013). The coaching sessions, in which motivational interviewing is used, target the following topics: 1. General introduction, 2. Family routines and weekly schedule; 3. Organizing materials in the home; 4. Reducing noise. After the general introduction, the sequence of the topics will be tailored to the parent's situation. Parents will also receive text messages with reminders three times a week during the four intervention weeks and will be provided with cards with reminders to be displayed at central places in the house. At the end, a booster session will be provided via telephone/Skype. The control group will receive seven weekly phone calls. In these phone calls, the intervenor will talk about child development in general. Household order/chaos is explicitly not discussed. In addition, parents will get cell phone messages three times a week with information about the development of children. CONDITION: Parenting, Child abuse, House calls ; ; PRIMARY OUTCOME: the effect of the intervention on household chaos SECONDARY OUTCOME: ‐ parenting quality ; ; ‐ child maltreatment ; ; ‐ child behavior ; ; ‐ mediators: self regulation, negative emotions, stress (physiological & self‐reported) ; ; ‐ moderator: sensory sensitivity INCLUSION CRITERIA: ‐ Primary caregiver with a child of 16‐20 months ‐ Primary cargeiver can read and speak Dutch ‐ Primary caregiver and child live in the same house ‐ Oldest child in the family maximum 12 years old ‐ High scores on CHAOS questionnaire