Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2024
Randomized trial of parent-child interaction therapy improves child-welfare parents' behavior, self-regulation, and self-perceptions.
Trial report in Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of parent-child interaction therapy dosage on child and parent outcomes: differentiating child-directed interaction and parent-directed interaction session impacts in child welfare-involved families.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Trial
- Dynamic physiology-behavior association patterns in child welfare parents predict response to parenting intervention.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2025Trial
- Teaching Youth & Families Self-Regulation Skills to Disrupt the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences: The THRIVE Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.Research square · 2026Article
- Characterizing beneficial change in parent attributions over the course of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: Dosage in phase of treatment matters.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Parenting Under Pressure: The Transformative Impact of PCIT on Caregiver Depression and Anxiety and Child Outcomes.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Parent-Child Interaction Therapy's Influence on Parental Behavior and Child Compliance in a Child-Welfare Involved Randomized Clinical Trial.Child & family behavior therapy · 2025Article
- Breaking the cycle: Psychological and social dimensions of pediatric functional gastrointestinal disorders.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2025Article
- Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for Disruptive Behavior: A Systematic Review of Effectiveness in Different Settings.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Multigenerational patterns of parenting-at-risk: A test of interpersonal specificity using copy process theory.Journal of clinical psychology · 2023Article
- Evidence-Based Treatment in Practice: PCIT Research on Addressing Individual Differences and Diversity Through the Lens of 20 Years of Service.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Review
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11 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveWe conducted a large (
methodParticipants were randomly assigned to standard PCIT (
resultsSignificant PCIT effects emerged on (a) increased positive parenting, reduced negative parenting and disruptive child behavior (small-to-medium intention-to-treat effects and medium-to-large per-protocol effects); (b) gains in parent inhibitory control on the stop-signal task (small-to-medium effects); (c) gains in parent-reported emotion regulation and (d) positive, affirming self-perceptions (small-to-medium effects), relative to the SAU control group. PCIT's effects on gains in parent emotion regulation were mediated by reductions in observed negative parenting. No differences in rates of parent commands or child compliance were observed across conditions. Harsh child attributions moderated treatment impact on parenting skills acquisition. PCIT parents who held harsher attributions displayed greater gains in use of labeled praises and declines in negative talk/criticism with their child, than control group parents.
conclusionsThis randomized trial presents the first evidence that PCIT improves inhibitory control and emotion regulation in a child welfare parents and replicates other published trials documenting intervention gains in positive parenting and child behavior in child welfare families. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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