The Impact of Parental Emotion Regulation Capacity on Behavioral Treatment for Pediatric ADHD
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Summary
Aim: To examine if parental emotion regulation (ER) moderates the response to parent training interventions. H1: Reduced parental ER capacity will predict diminished efficacy for behavioral parent training to improve negative parenting behavior (NPB) and behavior problems in offspring with ADHD. H2: Increased parental emotional reactivity will predict diminished efficacy for behavioral parent training to improve negative parenting behavior (NPB) and behavior problems in offspring with ADHD.
Description
Children ages 5-12 with ADHD and at least a mild level of oppositional behaviors will be enrolled in a single arm study examining the impact of objective and self rated measurements of parental emotion regulation and emotional reactivity to predict the degree of improvement seen in children's oppositional behaviors and negative parenting behaviors and from an evidence based eight session parenting intervention. The program emphasizes attending to positive behavior, contingent rewards for good behaviors and predictable consequences, such as time-out or loss of privilege, for negative behaviors.…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 5–12 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * Parent of a child ages 5-12 with ADHD * Parent must report that the child has at least a mild level of symptoms at home of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) on the Disruptive Behavior Disorder Rating Scale (DBDRS) Exclusion Criteria: 1. Not being the parent of a child ages 5-12 who meets diagnostic criteria for ADHD. 2. Non English Speaking 3. the child with ADHD has a diagnosis of intellectual delay or has prominent autistic traits 4. Another child in the same family participating in this study already 5. Parent does not have a smartphone or tablet device to complet…
Interventions
- BehavioralBehavioral Parenting Intervention
8 session evidence based parenting intervention
Location
- Penn State Health Dept of PsychiatryHershey, Pennsylvania