Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-8ctnn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-05T15:15:10.521Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Generalization of Treatment Effects in Parent Training with Multidistressed Parents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Mark R. Dadds ,
Matthew R. Sanders  and
Jack E. James
Mark R. Dadds
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Matthew R. Sanders
Affiliation:
Queensland, Australia
Jack E. James
Affiliation:
Flinders University
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

This paper presents two studies which attempt to clarify the processes by which families who have multiple problems respond to behavioural parent training procedures. Study 1 assessed a range of parent and child behaviours in diverse home and community childcare settings during baseline, child management training and 3-month follow-up. Results show that while treatment gains occurred in the home training setting with the therapist present, little generalization of therapeutic effects to other settings was found. At follow-up, the gains made in the training setting had largely reverted to baseline levels. Study 2 assessed the same parent and child behaviours across settings for another group of multidistressed families during baseline, child management training, generalization training (consisting of planned activities and a social-marital support intervention) and at follow-up. Results indicated that the generalization training was associated with further improvements in non-training settings for parent and child behaviour, and that these results had maintained or further improved at follow-up. The results are interpreted and discussed with reference to future research and clinical work with conduct disordered children and their families.

Type
Research Article
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , October 1987 , pp. 289 - 313
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1987

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Brody, G. H. and Forehand, R. (1985). The efficacy of parent training with maritally distressed and nondistressed mothers: A multimethod assessment. Behaviour Research and Therapy 23(3), 291–296.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Dadds, M. R., Sanders, M. R., Behrens, B. C. and James, J. E. (1987a). Marital discord and child behavior problems: A description of family interactions during treatment. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology (in press).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dadds, M. R., Schwartz, S. and Sanders, M. R. (1987b). Marital discord and treatment outcome in the behavioural treatment of child conduct disorders. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 55(3), 396–403.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Dumas, J. E. and Wahler, R. G. (1983). Predictors of treatment outcome in parent training: Mother insularity and socioeconomic disadvantage. Behavioral Assessment 5(4), 301–313.Google Scholar
Greist, D. L. and Wells, K. C. (1983). Behavioral family therapy with conduct disorders in children. Behavior Therapy 14, 37–53.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Greist, D. L., Forehand, R., Rogers, T., Breiner, J., Furey, W. and Williams, C. A. (1982). Effects of parent enhancement therapy on the treatment outcome and generalization of a parent training program. Behaviour Research and Therapy 20, 429–436.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hopkins, B. L. and Hermann, J. A. (1977). Evaluating interobserver reliability of interval data. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 10(1), 121–126.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Patterson, G. R., Reid, J. B., Jones, R. R. and Conger, R. E. (1975). A Social Learning Approach to Family Intervention: Volume One: Families with Aggressive Children. Castalia: Eugene, Oregon.Google Scholar
Reid, J. B. (1978). Psychological problems of the child and his family. Contemporary Psychology 23(11), 918–919.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sanders, M. R. and Christensen, A. P. (1985). Comparison of the effects of child management and planned activities training in five parenting environments. Abnormal Child Psychology 13(1), 101–117.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sanders, M. R. and Dadds, M. R. (1982). The effects of planned activities and child management training in parent training: An analysis of setting generality. Behavior Therapy 13, 452–461.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sanders, M. R. and Glynn, T. (1981). Training parents in behavioral self management: An analysis of generalization and maintenance. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 14, 223–237.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Wahler, R. G. and Dumas, J. E. (1984). Changing the observational coding style of insular and non-insular mothers: A step toward maintenance. In Parent Training: Foundations of Research and Practice, Dangel, R. F. and Polster, R. A. (Eds). New York, N.Y.: The Guilford Press.Google Scholar
Wahler, R. G. (1980). The insular mother: Her problems in parent–child treatment. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 13, 207–219.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Wahler, R. G. and Graves, M. G. (1983). Setting events in social networks: Ally or enemy in child behavior therapy? Behavior Therapy 14, 19–36.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Webster-Stratton, C. (1985). Predictors of treatment outcome in parent training for conduct disordered children. Behavior Therapy 16, 223–243.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wells, K. C., Greist, D. L. and Forehand, R. (1980). The use of a self control package to enhance the temporal generality of a parent training program. Behaviour Research and Therapy 18, 347–354.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Submit a response

Comments

No Comments have been published for this article.