Families Who Benefit and Families Who Do Not: Integrating Person- and Variable-Centered Analyses of Parenting Intervention Responses

Families with disruptive child behavior are typically referred to services based on children ’s behavior alone, rather than on underlying mechanisms of disruptive behavior. Yet, the presence of the precise mechanisms targeted by services might be essential for intervention success. We integrated person- and variable-centered approaches to test whether families with combined disruptive chi ld behavior and harsh/inconsistent parenting indeed benefit most from a behavioral parenting intervention in indicated prevention context, compared to families with disruptive child behavior but less harsh/inconsistent parenting, and families with less severe disruptive behavior.

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - February 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jolien van Aar, Patty Leijten, Bram Orobio de Castro, Joyce Weeland, Walter Matthys, Rabia Chhangur, Geertjan Overbeek Tags: New Research Source Type: research