Parent training: equivalent improvement in externalizing behavior for children with and without familial risk.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The Incredible Years Series intervention has demonstrated efficacy for decreasing conduct disorder (CD) symptomatology in clinically affected youth in multiple randomized controlled trials. Because children with family psychiatric histories of antisocial behavior are at markedly increased risk for enduring symptoms of antisocial behavior (compared with their counterparts with a negative family history), the authors examined whether intervention effects across studies would prevail in that subgroup or would be relatively restricted to children without genetic risk.

Method

A reanalysis was conducted of 5 randomized controlled trials of Incredible Years involving 280 clinically affected children 3 to 8 years of age for whom a family psychiatric history of externalizin

SUBMITTER: Presnall N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4492282 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature