@article{ref1,
title="Evaluating clinically significant change in mother and child functioning: comparison of traditional and enhanced behavioral parent training",
journal="Journal of abnormal child psychology",
year="2014",
author="Rajwan, Estrella and Chacko, Anil and Wymbs, Brian T. and Wymbs, Frances A.",
volume="42",
number="8",
pages="1407-1412",
abstract="The Strategies to Enhance Positive Parenting (STEPP) program, an enhanced behavioral parent training (BPT) intervention, was developed to improve engagement in and outcomes following treatment for single-mother families of school-age youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A previous randomized clinical trial of the STEPP program demonstrated that the intervention resulted in statistically significant improvements at the group-level in child oppositional behavior, various areas of child impairment, parental stress, and parenting behavior, relative to a wait-list control condition and a traditional BPT group. Despite benefits at the group-level, little is known about outcomes at the individual-level of enhanced BPT relative to traditional BPT for various child- and parent-level outcomes. The current study compares the extent to which traditional BPT and the STEPP program result in reliable change and recovery across various child- and parent-level outcomes in a sample of 80, 5-12 year old youth with ADHD (70 % male). Analyses demonstrated the benefit of participating in either BPT treatment; and participation in the STEPP program compared to traditional BPT was associated with only minimal incremental clinical benefit. <br><br>RESULTS, as well as clinical and research implications for assessment and treatment of high-risk families of youth with ADHD enrolled in BPT are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0091-0627",
doi="10.1007/s10802-014-9877-6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-014-9877-6"
}