Results indicated that a significant reduction in parenting stress occurred for mothers as a result of the intervention and parents reported increased empathy
for child problem behaviors.
Six months after program completion,
child problem behaviors as reported both by parents and through direct observations were significantly more apparent in the control group than in the treatment group.
Mothers were asked corresponding questions concerning ways their pediatrician currently helps them
with child problem behaviors (actual response) and ways they want their pediatrician to help (desired response).
She is currently the clinical supervisor for two randomized control trials of the Family Check - Up, an evidence - based intervention model for
preventing child problem behavior in high - risk families.
The results are discussed with respect to targeting maternal depression in future intervention studies aimed at improving
early child problem behavior.
Results indicate that intervention parents reported lower rates
of child problem behaviors, had fewer placement disruptions, and fewer foster parents dropped out of providing care.
Children in both groups showed a decrease in
child problem behavior over time, with a similar rate of change and similar variability in intercepts and slopes in both groups.
The effectiveness of two versions of the programs (1 -2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2 - 12 and 1 -2-3 Magic & Emotion Coaching) in
reducing child problem behaviors and dysfunctional parenting, and the effect on emotion - related parenting style, were examined.
Further analyses revealed that associations between externalizing problem behavior and effortful control were specific to components of
child problem behavior indexing impulsive - inattentive symptoms.
Further, for each wave families in which both parents had missing data on one or both of the pertinent scales for parent -
reported child problem behavior were excluded (n = 20), as well as families of which no observational data was available on child prosocial behavior (n = 5).
Considerable evidence has also accumulated over many years that as parenting improves, symptoms of maternal depression may lift.22 Long - term analyses of maternal depression and
child problem behavior show that completing parent management training is effective, overall, in improving parenting and reducing conduct problems.
Results indicate caregivers who received the intervention reported significant improvements in their mental health and discipline practices, and a significant reduction in
child problem behavior compared to the waitlist control group.
The study had two objectives: to replicate a prior finding that the number of
daily child problem behaviors at entry into a new foster home predicts subsequent placement disruptions in foster preschoolers and to determine whether this association is mitigated by a treatment foster care intervention.
Temperament traits have been found to be related to child psychopathology in population studies, even after correction for possible item overlap in questionnaire measures used to assess temperament and child problem behavior [8, 38].
Based on previous findings showing that
child problem behavior declines during the preschool years (Owens and Shaw 2003; Smith et al. 2004), we expected that children in both groups would show a decrease in problem behavior, but the rate of change was expected to be slower in the comparison group.
Parents who lack a sense of competence not only show less adequate parenting, but they also tend to withdraw from interactions with the child and give up
addressing child problem behaviors altogether (Coleman and Karraker 1998).
Analyses showed that (a) positive parenting appears to play a significant role in helping explain how parent depressive symptoms relate to child externalizing problems and (b) mindfulness is related to child internalizing and externalizing problems; however, the intervening constructs examined did not appear to help explain the mindfulness -
child problem behavior associations.
Some studies have described the relationship between parents» personality and
specific child problem behaviors, such as antisocial behaviors and depression (Bates et al., 1991; Brenning et al., 2011; Davies et al., 2012; Nigg & Hinshaw, 1998).
The 1 -2-3 Magic parenting program and its effect
on child problem behaviors and dysfunctional parenting: A randomized controlled trial.
Weiss, J.A., Cappadocia, M.C., MacMullin, J.A., Viecili, M. and Lunsky, Y. (2012) The impact
of child problem behaviors of children with ASD on parent mental health: The mediating role of acceptance and empowerment.
Depressive symptoms immediately following diagnosis were not related to initial global characteristics of child functioning, but were related to
reported child problem behaviors and financial barriers at follow - up.
This study examined harsh verbal and physical discipline and
child problem behaviors in a community sample of 2,582 parents and their fifth and sixth grade children.
Harsh discipline and
child problem behaviors: The roles of positive parenting and gender.
Within a randomized trial to evaluate a therapeutic intervention for foster preschoolers (n = 57 intervention condition; n = 60 comparison condition; n = 60 community comparison condition), the present study examined whether diurnal cortisol activity was associated with caregiver self - reported stress in response to
child problem behavior.
Results indicate that both intervention groups reported significantly decreased
child problem behaviors, dysfunctional parenting, parental depression, and parental stress at the end of the intervention as compared to the control group.
This randomized controlled trial examined the effectiveness of a self - directed video - based format of the 1 -2-3 Magic parenting program in reducing dysfunctional parenting and
child problem behaviors.
Mother — Child Synchrony and
Child Problem Behavior.
Chang, J.J., Halpern C, T., and Kaufman, J.S. (2007) «Maternal Depressive Symptoms, Father's Involvement, and the Trajectories of
Child Problem Behaviors in a US National Sample», Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 161/7, pp 697 - 703.
Teacher reports of conflict, but not closeness, have been found to be modestly related to efficacy beliefs of teachers (Spilt 2010; Yeo et al. 2008), and to self - reported depression of preschool teachers when conflict was higher than expected based on teacher perceptions of
child problem behavior (Hamre et al. 2008).
This study examined whether diurnal cortisol activity was associated with caregiver self - reported stress in response to
child problem behavior.
Moreover, fathers» perceptions of
child problem behavior and their reactions to it generally have been neglected.
Importantly though, Doumen et al. found that this cyclical process was driven by perceptions of heightened levels of
child problem behavior in the beginning, thereby indicating causality.
At the five - month postbaseline interview, foster parents who participated in the KEEP groups showed an increase in the proportion of positive reinforcements relative to discipline parenting practices, and this increase predicted a decrease in
child problem behaviors.
Conclusions The results of this study demonstrate that delivery of a 1 day intervention for distressed mothers can contribute to lower levels of parental distress and
child problem behavior.