BACKGROUND The efficacy of the Incredible Years (IY) Basic parent training (PT) programme for a community-based sample of families with pre-school children at risk of developing both conduct problems and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was examined. METHODS Pre-school children displaying signs of both early-onset conduct problems and ADHD were randomly allocated to either IY P...

Rob and Norfor (1980) compared the outcomes of PET participants with population norms on the same measures and found that parents who had completed PET showed greater confidence in their ability as parents, were more aware of the influence of the environment on their children and had a more trusting relationship with them. They also found that those who were not very well informed about child r...

Parent training has great potential to alter the developmental trajectories of young Latino children with or at risk for behavior problems. However, traditional parent training programs may seem culturally irrelevant or inappropriate to Latino parents as they promote practices that are based on white, middle class standards. The current study of treatment acceptability used focus group and key ...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a parent training program in improving parenting practices, parents' feeling of self-efficacy and parents' perception of their child's behavior, implemented in a child protection service, with trained professionals from the agency acting as facilitators. METHOD Thirty-five parents monitored in a child protection service for child negl...

BACKGROUND Approximately 20% of children experience internalizing or externalizing DSM-IV-TR disorders. This prevalence rate cannot be reduced through treatment only. Effective preventive interventions are therefore urgently needed. The aim of the current investigation is to evaluate the two-year efficacy of the group Triple P parenting program administered universally for the prevention of chi...

the aim of this study was surveying the mediating effect of parent-adolescent conflict between inter-parenting conflict and risk behaviors. the study is description and the type is structural equation modeling; the population of the study is students of qods town which is located in tehran province. sample size is 610 students that were selected by multistage random sampling. the data were gath...

A 41⁄2-year-old girl with ADHD, combined subtype, and oppositional defiant disorder presents for evaluation and initiation of treatment. She has severe symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, leading to significant impairment in multiple domains. Peer relationships are strained, and she was admitted to the emergency department twice last year (once after darting in front of a c...