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Is parenting the mediator of change in behavioral parent training for externalizing problems of youth?
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Change in parenting behavior is theorized to be the mediator accounting for change in child and adolescent externalizing problems in behavioral parent training (BPT). The purpose of this review is to examine this assumption in BPT prevention and intervention programs. Eight intervention and 17 prevention studies were identified as meeting all criteria or all but one criterion for testing mediation. Parenting behaviors were classified as positive, negative, discipline, monitoring/supervision, or a composite measure. Forty-five percent of the tests performed across studies to test mediation supported parenting as a mediator. A composite measure of parenting and discipline received the most support, whereas monitoring/supervision was rarely examined. More support for the mediating role of parenting emerged for prevention than intervention studies and when meeting all criteria for testing mediation was not required. Although the findings do not call BPT into question as an efficacious treatment, they do suggest more attention should be focused on examining parenting as a putative mediator in BPT.
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- Authors
- Forehand, R., Lafko, N., Parent, J., & Burt, K. B.
- Affiliations
- University of Vermont (US)
- Corresponding author
- Forehand, Rex
- Venue
- Clinical Psychology Review
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-12
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 608-619
- ISSN
- 0272-7358 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4254490
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- FWCI
- 1.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- Clinical Psychology Review (publishedVersion)
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- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH100377)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD064723)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Therapy and Development
- Keywords
- behavioral parent training, parental behavior, mediation, externalizing problems, child and adolescent behavior problems, prevention programs, intervention program, discipline, positive parenting, negative parenting
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Behavior Therapy, Education, Nonprofessional, Humans, Parenting, Conduct Disorder, Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders
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