Preschool children's response to behavioural parent training and parental predictors of outcome in routine clinical care

ConclusionsBPT under routine care conditions clearly improves disruptive behaviours in preschool children. Mothers who consider themselves as inadequate in disciplining and mothers whose partners do not consume high levels of alcohol report the largest improvements.Key practitioner
Disruptive behaviours in referred preschool children improve when parents follow behavioural parent training under routine care conditions.
Behavioural parent training is useful to help parents experience fewer behaviours as troublesome.
About one third of the parents for whom behavioural parent training was indicated never started the treatment.
Clinicians are recommended to put additional effort in motivating and facilitating parents to actually participate in behavioural parent training.
It may be useful to assess and treat problematic alcohol use in fathers before behavioural parent training.
Behavioural parent training may be particularly effective when mothers perceive themselves as inadequate in disciplining.

Source: Clinical Psychology - July 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lianne Veen ‐Mulders, Pieter J. Hoekstra, Maaike H. Nauta, Barbara J. Hoofdakker Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research