Using Problem-Solving Skills Training and Parent Management Training for Children with Conduct Disorder

2004 ◽  
pp. 387-413
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Conduct Disorder ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Parent Management Training ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Parent Management

Psychosocial Treatments for Conduct Disorder in Children and Adolescents

2007 ◽  
pp. 71-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan E. Kazdin
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Family Therapy ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Conduct Disorder ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Parent Management Training ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Parent Management

Antisocial and aggressive behavior in children (conduct disorder) is extremely difficult to treat in light of the stability of the problem, untoward long-term prognosis, and the diverse domains of dysfunction in the child, parent, and family with which the problem is associated. Significant advances have been made in treatment. Seven treatments with strong evidence in their behalf with children and adolescents are reviewed and include parent management training, multisystemic therapy, multidimensional treatment foster care, cognitive problem-solving skills training, anger control training, functional family therapy, and brief strategic family therapy. Parent management training is directed at altering parent-child interactions in the home, particularly those interactions related to child-rearing practices and coercive interchanges. Multisystemic therapy focuses on the individual, family, and extrafamilial systems and their interrelations as a way to reduce symptoms and to promote prosocial behavior. The multidimensional treatment foster care model focuses on youth who are in placement and who are to return to their parents or more permanent foster care. Behavioral treatments in the placement and in the setting to which the child is returned are part of a comprehensive effort to integrate treatment and community life. Cognitive problem-solving skills training focuses on cognitive processes that underlie social behavior and response repertoires in interpersonal situations. Also cognitively based, anger control training includes problem-solving skills training in the context of groups in the schools. The program has an additional component that includes parent management training. Functional family therapy utilizes principles of systems theory and behavior modification for altering interaction, communication patterns, and problem solving among family members. Brief strategic family therapy focuses on the structure of the family and concrete strategies that can be used to promote improved patterns of interaction. This treatment has been developed with Hispanic children and adolescents and has integrated culturally pertinent issues to engage the families. Questions remain about the long-term impact of various treatments, the persons for whom one or more of these treatments is well suited, and how to optimize therapeutic change. Even so, the extensive evidence indicates that there are several viable treatments for conduct disorder. Disseminating these to professionals and children and families remains a key challenge.

Saving Children from a Life of Crime: the Benefits Greatly Outweigh the Costs!

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 67-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. Farrington ◽  
Brandon C. Welsh
Keyword(s):  
Parent Education ◽  
Home Visiting ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Parent Management Training ◽  
Randomized Experiments ◽  
Communities That Care ◽  
Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care ◽  
Parent Management

SummaryThis article reviews some of the most effective programmes for saving children from a life of crime, and also presents the results of cost-benefit analyses of some of these programmes. The best programmes include general parent education in home visiting programmes, parent management training, pre-school intellectual enrichment programmes, child skills training, Functional Family Therapy, Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care and Multisystemic Therapy. Communities That Care is a useful overarching programme. Most of these programmes have been shown to reduce crime and save money. The time is ripe to establish national agencies in all countries which will advance knowledge about early risk factors (from longitudinal studies) and about effective developmental interventions (from randomized experiments and cost-benefit analyses).

Problem Solving Skills Training for Return to Work

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
William S. Shaw ◽  
Michael Feuerstein ◽  
Virginia I. Miller ◽  
Patricia M. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Return To Work ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Problem Solving Skills

Family-Based Programs for Preventing Delinquency and Later Offending

2018 ◽  
pp. 652-672
Author(s):  
Brandon C. Welsh ◽  
Steven N. Zane
Keyword(s):  
Parent Education ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Parent Management Training ◽  
Criminal Offending ◽  
Family Risk Factors ◽  
Family Risk ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Parent Management ◽  
Research And Policy

This chapter reviews the leading family-based programs for preventing delinquency and later offending, focusing on the highest quality research studies as well as the most rigorous reviews of research that include only high-quality studies. It argues that by focusing on families we can go a long way toward improving the effectiveness of programs and policies to prevent delinquency and later criminal offending. As such, this chapter provides some background on family risk factors and family-based prevention programs. It then examines the research evidence on the leading family-based programs for preventing delinquency and later offending: parent education, parent management training, and family programs for system-involved youth. Finally, this chapter discusses some implications for research and policy.

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