Parent training for preschool ADHD: a randomized controlled trial of specialized and generic programs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The 'New Forest Parenting Package' (NFPP), an 8-week home-based intervention for parents of preschoolers with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), fosters constructive parenting to target ADHD-related dysfunctions in attention and impulse control. Although NFPP has improved parent and laboratory measures of ADHD in community samples of children with ADHD-like problems, its efficacy in a clinical sample, and relative to an active treatment comparator, is unknown. The aims are to evaluate the short- and long-term efficacy and generalization effects of NFPP compared to an established clinic-based parenting intervention for treating noncompliant behavior ['Helping the Noncompliant Child' (HNC)] in young children with ADHD.

Methods

A randomized controlled t

SUBMITTER: Abikoff HB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4400193 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature