Ev. Brestan et Sm. Eyberg, EFFECTIVE PSYCHOSOCIAL TREATMENTS OF CONDUCT-DISORDERED CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS - 29 YEARS, 82 STUDIES, AND 5,272 KIDS, Journal of clinical child psychology, 27(2), 1998, pp. 180-189
Reviews psychosocial interventions for child and adolescent conduct pr
oblems, including oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder,
to identify empirically supported treatments. Eighty-two controlled re
search studies were evaluated using the criteria developed by the Divi
sion 12 (Clinical Psychology) Task Force an Promotion and Disseminatio
n of Psychological Procedures. The 82 studies were also examined for s
pecific participant, treatment, and methodological characteristics to
describe the treatment literature for child and adolescent conduct pro
blems. Two interventions were identified that met the stringent criter
ia for well-established treatments. videotape modeling parent training
program (Spaccarelli, Cotler, & Penman, 1992; Webster-Stratton, 1984,
1994) and parent-training programs based on Patterson and Gullion's (
1968) manual Living With Children (Alexander & Parsons, 1973; Bernal,
Klinnert, & Schultz, 1980, Wiltz & Patterson, 1974). Twenty of the 82
studies were identified as supporting the efficacy of probably efficac
ious treatments.