A RANDOMIZED TRIAL OF BRIEF INDIVIDUAL VERSUS GROUP PARENT TRAINING FOR BEHAVIOUR PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN WITH SEVERE LEARNING DISABILITIES
Primary school aged children with severe learning disabilities and behavioural problems were identified from those attending special needs schools in three adjacent Inner London boroughs. In two of the boroughs their parents/carers were randomly allocated to receive 5-7 group- or individually-based...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy 2001-04, Vol.29 (2), p.151-167 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Primary school aged children with severe learning disabilities and behavioural problems were identified from
those attending special needs schools in three adjacent Inner London boroughs. In two of the boroughs their parents/carers were randomly allocated to receive 5-7 group- or individually-based intervention sessions aimed at preventing
or reducing their child's behaviour problems; teaching and support staff at their schools received a 2-day workshop
with the same aims. Children in the third borough served as a “no treatment” control group. Follow-up assessments
were carried out shortly after the interventions were completed and 6 months later. Individually-based intervention was
superior to group-based intervention in acceptability, attendance, levels of participant satisfaction and the likelihood of
reported behavioural improvement. Within the individual intervention group, behaviours that had been targeted for
intervention were more likely to show improvements than those that were untargeted. However, in spite of these
improvements, there were no significant differences between groups in the absolute frequency or severity of the
child's behaviour problems at either post-intervention assessment, and reductions in levels of parental distress noted
on completion of the interventions were no longer apparent 6 months later. |
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ISSN: | 1352-4658 1469-1833 |
DOI: | 10.1017/S135246580100203X |