ReviewClinical child and family psychology review2018
What Role for Parental Attributions in Parenting Interventions for Child Conduct Problems? Advances from Research into Practice.
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- Treatment of childhood disruptive behavior disorders and callous-unemotional traits: a systematic review and two multilevel meta-analyses.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2023Pooled it
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- Sex-Based Parent Attributions for Child Behaviour.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
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- Dimensions of Warm Parenting Attributions Differentiate Conduct Problem Subtypes in Young Children.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Maternal aggressive behavior in interactions with adolescent offspring: Proximal social-cognitive predictors in depressed and nondepressed mothers.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Article
- Conception and Development of the Warmth/Affection Coding System (WACS): A Novel Hybrid Behavioral Observational Tool for Assessing Parent-to-Child Warmth.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- The importance of parent self-regulation and parent-child coregulation in research on parental discipline.Child development perspectives · 2023Article
- Parents' early representations of their children moderate socialization processes: Evidence from two studies.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
- Parenting in the Context of the Child: Genetic and Social Processes.Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · 2022Article
- Review of barriers and interventions to promote treatment engagement for pediatric attention deficit hyperactivity disorder care.World journal of psychiatry · 2021Review
- The Ecology of Youth Psychological Wellbeing in the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of applied research in memory and cognition · 2021Article
- Parental Attributions in Ethnocultural Minority, Immigrant, and Country of Origin Parents: A Scoping Review and Call for Research.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2021Article
- Expressed Emotion and Attributions in Parents With Schizophrenia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- How Do Mothers' Parental Attributions Affect Child Outcomes from a Positive Parenting Intervention? A Mediation Study.Child psychiatry and human development · 2020Article
- Parents' Spontaneous Attributions about their Problem Child: Associations with Parental Mental Health and Child Conduct Problems.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2019Article
- Why is this Happening? A Brief Measure of Parental Attributions Assessing Parents' Intentionality, Permanence, and Dispositional Attributions of Their Child with Conduct Problems.Child psychiatry and human development · 2019Article
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Abstract
The role of parental attributions in parenting interventions has been the subject of intense interest from clinicians and researchers attempting to optimise outcomes in treatments for children with conduct problems. Despite research articulating the many ways parental attributions can influence behavioural parent training (BPT) outcomes, and recognition that addressing parental attributions in treatment is one of the great challenges faced by BPT practitioners, parenting interventions generally do not provide components that explicitly target or focus on changing problematic parental attributions. In this paper, we ask 'Should parental attributions be included into best practice interventions? If so, how can this be done in a way that improves outcomes without cluttering and complicating the parent training model?' We review the theoretical and empirical status of our understanding of the role of parental attributions in BPT with reference to three questions: 'do pre-treatment parental attributions uniquely predict treatment outcomes'; 'do changes in parental attributions uniquely predict treatment outcomes'; and 'does targeting parental attributions in BPT affect treatment outcomes'. Our review indicates that existing research supports the importance of focussing on parental attributions for some families in order to maximise treatment outcomes. However, clinical processes for doing this are yet to be identified and specified in a way that would allow for manualised replication and scrutiny in research designs. We finish with a discussion of how these clinical and research challenges could be approached.
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