EFFECTIVE PSYCHOSOCIAL TREATMENTS OF CONDUCT-DISORDERED CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS - 29 YEARS, 82 STUDIES, AND 5,272 KIDS

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.