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Types of parental involvement in CBT with anxious youth: a preliminary meta-analysis

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Manassis, Katharina, Lee, Trevor Changgun, Bennett, Kathryn, Zhao, Xiu Yan, Mendlowitz, Sandra, Duda, Stephanie, Saini, Michael, Wilansky, Pamela +19 more·2014·Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Meta-analytic studies have not confirmed that involving parents in cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for anxious children is therapeutically beneficial. There is also great heterogeneity in the type of parental involvement included. We investigated parental involvement focused on contingency management (CM) and transfer of control (TC) as a potential outcome moderator using a meta-analysis with individual patient data. METHOD: Investigators of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of CBT for anxious children, identified systematically, were invited to submit their data. Conditions in each RCT were coded based on type of parental involvement in CBT (i.e., low involvement, active involvement without emphasis on CM or TC, active involvement with emphasis on CM or TC). Treatment outcomes were compared using a 1-stage meta-analysis. RESULTS: All cases involved in active treatment (894 of 1,618) were included for subgroup analyses. Across all CBT groups, means of clinical severity, anxiety, and internalizing symptoms significantly decreased posttreatment and were comparable across groups. The group without emphasis on CM or TC showed a higher proportion with posttreatment anxiety diagnoses than the low-involvement group. Between posttreatment and 1-year follow-up, the proportion with anxiety diagnoses significantly decreased in CBT with active parental involvement with emphasis on CM or TC, whereas treatment gains were merely maintained in the other 2 groups. CONCLUSIONS: CBT for anxious children is an effective treatment with or without active parental involvement. However, CBT with active parental involvement emphasizing CM or TC may support long-term maintenance of treatment gains. RESULTS should be replicated as additional RCTs are published.

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Manassis, K., Lee, T. C., Bennett, K., Zhao, X. Y., Mendlowitz, S., Duda, S., Saini, M., Wilansky, P., Baer, S., Barrett, P., Bodden, D., Cobham, V. E., Dadds, M. R., Flannery-Schroeder, E., Ginsburg, G., Heyne, D., Hudson, J. L., Kendall, P. C., Liber, J., Masia-Warner, C., Nauta, M. H., Rapee, R. M., Silverman, W., Siqueland, L., Spence, S. H., Utens, E., & Wood, J. J.
Affiliations
  • University of Toronto (CA)
  • McMaster University (CA)
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital (GB)
  • University of British Columbia (CA)
  • Utrecht University (NL)
  • The University of Queensland (AU)
  • UNSW Sydney (AU)
  • University of Rhode Island (US)
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
  • Leiden University (NL)
  • Macquarie University (AU)
  • Temple University (US)
  • University of Groningen (NL)
  • Yale University (US)
  • Griffith University (AU)
  • Erasmus MC - Sophia Children’s Hospital (NL)
Venue
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Published
2014
Volume
82
Issue
6
Pages
1163-1172
ISSN
  • 0022-006X (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-2117
OpenAlex
W1983117319
Cited by
199
References
46
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FWCI
22.82
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Licence
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  • EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (publishedVersion)
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  • EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion)
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  • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychological Treatments and Assessments
Keywords
parental involvement, cognitive behavioral therapy, childhood anxiety, contingency management, transfer of control, treatment moderators, maintenance therapy, internalizing problems, individual patient data
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Child, Family Therapy, Female, Humans, Male, Parents, Severity of Illness Index, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Treatment Outcome

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