Treatment Outcomes of Children with Primary Versus Secondary Callous-Unemotional Traits.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Recent efforts to improve outcomes for young children with conduct problems and callous-unemotional (CU) traits involve adapting treatments to meet the unique needs of this subgroup. However, these efforts have ignored accumulating evidence for distinct primary and secondary variants within the CU subgroup. Existing treatment adaptations uniformly target risk factors associated with primary CU traits and no studies have investigated variant-specific patterns of responsiveness to treatment adaptations among young children with CU-type conduct problems.

Method

Participants were 45 families with a 3- to 7-year-old clinic-referred child (M = 4.84 years, SD = 1.08, 84% boys) with conduct problems and CU traits. Primary and secondary CU variants were defined based on bas

SUBMITTER: Fleming GE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10627936 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature