ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2023
Commentary: Optimism and guidance for improving treatment effects among children with callous-unemotional traits - reflections on Perlstein et al. (2023).
Article in Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Treatment Outcomes of Children with Primary Versus Secondary Callous-Unemotional Traits.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Trial
- Out of Sync: Parent-Child Behavioral Synchrony in Conduct Problem Subgroups.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Educator Knowledge of Childhood Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Identification of treatment elements for adolescents with callous unemotional traits: a systematic narrative review.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Review
- Involving Parents in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children and Adolescents with Conduct Problems: Goals, Outcome Expectations, and Normative Beliefs About Aggression are Targeted in Sessions with Parents and Their Child.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Review
- How can (or could) biology inform more effective parenting interventions for childhood aggression?Aggression and violent behaviorArticle
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Abstract
Callous-unemotional (CU) traits have increasingly received attention as a potential predictor and outcome of treatment for children with conduct problems. The results of Perlstein et al. (2023) offer the first meta-analytic evidence against the long-held belief that CU traits confer treatment resistance. The results also suggest that children with conduct problems and CU traits require something more or different to achieve treatment outcomes commensurate with their conduct problems-only peers. In this commentary, I reflect on how treatment adaptations for children with conduct problems and CU traits have attempted to achieve this goal, emphasizing that more work is needed to maximize improvement in putative mechanisms and mediators of treatment-related change. In this way, I argue that Perlstein et al. (2023) offer both optimism and guidance for improving treatment effects among children with conduct problems and CU traits.
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