Background To provide successful treatment to detained adolescents, staff in juvenile justice institutions need to work in family-centered ways. As juvenile justice institutions struggled to involve parents in their child's treatment, we developed a program for family-centered care. Methods The program was developed in close collaboration with staff from the two juvenile justice institutions ...

objectives: to investigate the effectiveness of resiliency training in improving the mother-child relationship between mothers and their children with mental retardation.  methods: this study employed an experimental design (pre-test, post-test) with the control group. the statistical population consisted of 52 mothers and their educable and mentally retarded children (3-12 years old) who were ...

OBJECTIVES To examine changes in nocturia from a multicomponent behavioral training program or drug therapy in older women with urge or mixed (urge-predominant) urinary incontinence. DESIGN A secondary analysis of data from a prospective, randomized clinical trial. SETTING Parent trial was an outpatient research protocol in Alabama. PARTICIPANTS One hundred ninety-seven women (aged 55-92)...

Behavioral parent training is a common approach to addressing externalizing behavior, which is among the most frequent and costly reasons for children’s referral to mental health settings (Kazdin, 1997). Parent training focuses on promoting positive interactions and reducing misbehavior by teaching parents to rearrange the social contingencies for their children’s behavior. Systematic research ...

Objective: Positive Parenting Program (Triple-P) is an approved method of parent training for reducing child behavioral problems. The present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of standard level of Triple-P in improving behavioral problems and core Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms of preschool children diagnosed with ADHD.  Methods: The study was conducted on 94 ...