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Training Parents to Manage Difficult Children: A Comparison of Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Carole Sutton
Carole Sutton
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Leicester Polytechnic
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This study examined the efficacy of training parents in different methods of child management, using social learning theory/behavioural principles. Following an encouraging pilot study, thirty-seven pre-school children, six girls and thirty-one boys, were allocated to one of four methods of parent training: group, home visit, telephone, or waiting list/delayed intervention control. Assessment conducted pre- and post-intervention and at twelve to eighteen months follow-up indicated clinical improvement for all three active intervention conditions compared to the waiting list control condition. There were no significant differences between the three active intervention conditions either at post-intervention or at follow-up. Results are discussed in terms of their theoretical and practical implications.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 1992 , pp. 115 - 139
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1992

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