Empirical support for a treatment program for families of young children with externalizing problems
| Autor: | Bruce L. Baker, Kristin Abbott Feinfield |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Male Parents Stress management Psychometrics media_common.quotation_subject Child Behavior Disorders Personality Assessment Social Environment Developmental psychology Empirical research Behavior Therapy Developmental and Educational Psychology Parenting styles Multimodal treatment Humans Behavior management Assertiveness Empiricism Child Internal-External Control media_common Parenting Attendance Parenting stress Consumer Behavior Clinical Psychology Outcome and Process Assessment Health Care Treatment Outcome Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity Child Preschool Family Therapy Female Psychology Clinical psychology Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53. 33(1) |
| ISSN: | 1537-4416 |
| Popis: | We evaluated the efficacy of a manualized multimodal treatment program for young externalizing children. Families were assigned randomly to an immediate 12-week parent and child treatment condition (n = 24) or to a delayed-treatment condition (n = 23). Parents had high attendance, high satisfaction with treatment, and increased knowledge of behavior management principles. Relative to the waitlist condition, treatment parents reported statistically and clinically significant reductions in child behavior problems, improved parenting practices (i.e., increased consistency, decreased power assertive techniques), an increased sense of efficacy, and reduced parenting stress. There was a trend toward parents improving their attitudes toward their children. In considering the process of change, we found evidence that improved parenting practices mediated reductions in child behavior problems and that child improvements mediated changes in parent attitudes and stress. Five months following treatment, teachers reported significant improvements in child behaviors, whereas parents reported that reductions in child behavior problems and parenting stress were maintained. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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