SynthesisEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2024
Does behavioural parent training reduce internalising symptoms (or not) among children with externalising problems? Systematic review and meta-analysis.
Synthesis in European child & adolescent psychiatry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- 'Pilot RCT of a new treatment for child conduct problems that have not responded to evidence-based parent training'.PloS one · 2026Trial
- Parenting Interventions for Child Mental Health: The Science and Practice of Measurement-Based Care.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Review
- Modification of an observational tool to evaluate how community health workers engage low-income latino parents in parent-child interaction therapy.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Increasing the Parenting Sense of Competence in Mothers of Bullying School-aged Boys through Behavioral Parent Training (BPT): A Quasi-Experimental Study.International journal of school health · 2025Article
- Oppositional defiant disorder.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2023Review
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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Abstract
Behaviour parent training (BPT) is known to effectively reduce child externalising problems. However, evidence for BPT to have secondary benefits for reducing internalising symptoms remains unclear. To address this, electronic databases (PsycINFO, MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and SCOPUS) were systematically searched for studies examining internalising outcomes from BPT among children aged 2-12 years with clinically elevated externalizing problems. Outcomes for internalising problems following BPT were analysed by meta-analysis. Of 9105 studies identified, 24 studies met the eligibility criteria. Results from meta-analysis demonstrated a significant small treatment effect size (g = - 0.41) for reducing internalising symptoms immediately after treatment. Studies showed moderate heterogeneity (I
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