Trial reportJournal of abnormal child psychology2014
Treating parents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: the effects of behavioral parent training and acute stimulant medication treatment on parent-child interactions.
Trial report in Journal of abnormal child psychology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Parenting Cognition and Affective Outcomes Following Parent Management Training: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2016Pooled it
- Clinical Effectiveness of Family Therapeutic Interventions Embedded in General Pediatric Primary Care Settings for Parental Mental Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2015Pooled it
- Parent Mental Health and Engagement in Parenting Interventions for Child ADHD.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Trial
- Parent training tailored for parents with ADHD: a randomized controlled trial.BMC psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Does the efficacy of parent-child training depend on maternal symptom improvement? Results from a randomized controlled trial on children and mothers both affected by attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2018Trial
- Parental ADHD as a Mechanistic Barrier to Behavioral Parent Training Implementation: An Intergenerational Framework for Addressing Childhood ADHD.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Review of barriers and interventions to promote treatment engagement for pediatric attention deficit hyperactivity disorder care.World journal of psychiatry · 2021Review
- Comorbid Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms Among Children with ADHD: The Influence of Parental Distress, Parenting Practices, and Child Routines.Child psychiatry and human development · 2020Article
- Does helping mothers in multigenerational ADHD also help children in the long run? 2-year follow-up from baseline of the AIMAC randomized controlled multicentre trial.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2020Article
- Sequential treatment of ADHD in mother and child (AIMAC study): importance of the treatment phases for intervention success in a randomized trial.BMC psychiatry · 2018Article
- A Review of the Clinical Utility of Systematic Behavioral Observations in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).Child psychiatry and human development · 2018Review
- Mediators and Moderators of the Relation between Parental ADHD Symptomatology and the Early Development of Child ADHD and ODD Symptoms.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2017Article
- Parent ADHD and Evidence-Based Treatment for Their Children: Review and Directions for Future Research.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2017Review
- Occurrence of ADHD in parents of ADHD children in a clinical sample.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2016Article
- Delivering evidence-based treatments for child attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the context of parental ADHD.Current psychiatry reports · 2014Review
- A Longitudinal Study of the Relation Between Family Functioning and Preschool ADHD Symptoms.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
This multiple baseline study evaluated the efficacy of behavioral parent training (BPT) for 12 parents (M age = 39.17 years; 91% mothers) and their children (ages 6-12; 83% boys) both with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and also explored the acute effect of stimulant medication for parents before and after BPT. Parents rated their own and their children's symptoms and impairment and were stabilized on optimally dosed medication. Then, parents discontinued medication and were randomly assigned to a 3, 4, or 5 week baseline (BL), during which they provided twice-weekly ratings of their impairment, parenting, and their child's behavior. Following BL, parents and their children completed two laboratory tasks, once on their optimally dosed medication and once on a placebo to assess observable effects of medication on parent-child behavior, and they completed additional assessments of family functioning. Parents then completed eight BPT sessions, during which they were unmedicated. Twice-weekly ratings of parent and child behavior were collected during BPT and additional ratings were collected upon completing BPT. Two more parent-child tasks with and without parent medication were conducted upon BPT completion to assess the observable effects of BPT and BPT plus medication. Ten (83.33%) parents completed the trial. Improvements in parent and child behavior were observed, and parents reported improved child behavior with BPT. Few benefits of BPT emerged through parent reports of parent functioning, with the exception of inconsistent discipline, and no medication or interaction effects emerged. These results, although preliminary, suggest that some parents with ADHD benefit from BPT. While pharmacological treatment is the most common intervention for adults with ADHD, further examination of psychosocial treatments for adults is needed.
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