Zusammenfassung Hintergrund: Angstund depressive Störungen gehören zu den häufigsten Störungen des Kindesund Jugendalters und beeinträchtigen die kindliche Entwicklung erheblich. Zur Prävention von Angststörungen und depressiven Erkrankungen haben sich kognitiv-verhaltenstherapeutische Programme als wirksam erwiesen, wobei die Kinder in unterschiedlichem Ausmaß profitieren. Ein möglicher Einflu...

This paper outlines the theoretical and empirical foundations of a unique multilevel parenting and family support strategy designed to reduce the prevalence of behavioral and emotional problems in preadolescent children. The program known as Triple P-Positive Parenting Program is a multilevel system of family intervention, which provides five levels of intervention of increasing strength. These...

background: previous studies have shown that interaural-time-difference (itd) training can improve localization ability. surprisingly little is, however, known about localization training vis-à-vis speech perception in noise based on interaural time difference in the envelope (itd env). we sought to investigate the reliability of an itd env-based training program in speech-in-noise perception a...

OBJECTIVE The Strategies to Enhance Positive Parenting (STEPP) program was developed to address putative factors related to poor engagement in and outcomes following traditional behavioral parent training (BPT) for single mothers of children diagnosed with ADHD. METHOD Twelve single mothers of children with ADHD were enrolled in an initial investigation of the feasibility and preliminary effi...

Short-term and long-term predictors of therapeutic change due to parent management training were investigated. Therapeutic change was defined as the change in outcome measures [externalizing problem behavior and parenting self-efficacy (PSE)] from before treatment to afterward. Three different types of predictors were analyzed: child variables (gender, age, and initial externalizing and interna...

BACKGROUND Parents are the ones who decide whether or not to participate in parent focused prevention trials. Their decisions may be affected by internal factors (e.g., personality, attitudes, sociodemographic characteristics) or external barriers. Some of these barriers are study-related and others are intervention-related. Internal as well as external barriers are especially important at the ...

A literature review was conducted using the PubMed and CINAHL databases with the keywords ‘Autism Spectrum Disorder’, ‘communication’, ‘parent training’, and ‘intervention’. These searches yielded approximately 15 articles each. Many were duplicates. Only studies published in peer reviewed journals were considered for inclusion in this factsheet. Articles related to modifying child behavior usi...

A key question in welfare policy concerns the potential that welfare-to-work programs have to develop in teenage parents the motivation and skills to provide financially for themselves and their children. The Teenage Parent Welfare Demonstration was a major experiment initiated in 1986 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and evaluated by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., to tes...