TREATMENT OF ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN CHILDREN

目前的提案是一项ADAMHA研究科学家奖的申请。 研究的目的是确定和发展有效的 对儿童反社会行为的干预。的意义 重点来自相对较高的患病率和临床转诊 反社会行为的发生率，未治疗的 功能障碍，以及缺乏干预措施， 功效制定有效的干预措施需要广泛的基础 直接评估治疗和预防技术的研究计划， 纵向研究反社会行为的过程， 临床参考、风险和规范样本，以设计和测试 反社会行为的发病和累犯模型，并评估和 在治疗中综合考虑儿童、父母和家庭因素 反应 对反社会行为缺乏有效的治疗标志着 发展性精神病理学领域的一个更广泛的问题。在 一般来说，相对较少的对照研究存在，评估 儿童疾病的替代疗法缺乏治疗 研究是引人注目的，鉴于儿童疾病的流行， 需要有效的治疗，以及可用的范围，但未经评估， 干预措施。虽然该提案的主要重点是 儿童反社会行为的治疗，我们研究的范式 将扩展到解决更广泛的治疗问题。与 最后，提案和职业承诺，它反映了走向发展 关于儿童和心理治疗的更广泛的研究项目。两个平行 项目旨在确定儿童治疗的研究重点， 在全国范围内对心理学家和儿童精神病学家进行调查， 确定心理治疗研究优先次序的实践（儿童 和青少年心理治疗：从业者调查 基金会）和特点的重点，问题和方法， 指导当代治疗研究（治疗的有效性 儿童和青少年的做法-罗伯特·伍德约翰逊 基金会）。这些项目和专业成长的经验， RSA旨在确定研究空白，并扩大重点 研究儿童心理治疗的奖项。

The present proposal is a request for an ADAMHA Research Scientist Award. The objectives of the research are to identify and develop effective interventions for antisocial behavior in children. The significance of the focus derives from the relatively high prevalence and clinical referral rates for antisocial behavior, the long-term prognosis of untreated dysfunction, and the absence of interventions with clearly demonstrated efficacy. Developing effective interventions requires a broad-based research program to evaluate treatment and prevention techniques directly, to examine the course of antisocial behavior longitudinally among clinically referred, at-risk, and normative samples, to devise and test models of onset and recidivism of antisocial behavior, and to assess and integrate child, parent, and family dimensions in relation to treatment response. The absence of effective treatments for antisocial behavior signals a somewhat broader problem in the field of developmental psychopathology. In general, relatively little controlled research exists that evaluates alternative treatments for childhood disorders. The dearth of treatment research is conspicuous, given the prevalence of childhood disorders, the need for effective treatments, and the range of available, but unevaluated, interventions. Although the primary focus of the proposal is on the treatment of antisocial behavior in children, the paradigm of our studies will be extended to address a broader range of treatment questions. To that end, the proposal and career commitment it reflects move toward developing a broader research program on child and psychotherapy. Two parallel projects are directed to identify research priorities for child therapy by providing a nation-wide survey of psychologists and child psychiatrists in practice to determine research priorities for psychotherapy research (Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: A Survey of Practitioners--Rivendell Foundation) and by characterizing the focus, questions, and methods that guide contemporary treatment studies (The Effectiveness of Treatment Practices for Children and Adolescents--The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation). These latter projects and professional growth experiences of the RSA are designed to identify research Lacunae and to expand the focus of the proposed award research to study child psychotherapy.