Parent Training for Fathers of Children with ADHD

描述（由申请人提供）：由于父母对一系列结果的重要性，在过去的世纪，关于正常和异常儿童的母亲的父母行为的大量信息已经积累。然而，关于父亲、父亲身份以及父亲如何养育孩子的研究却非常缺乏。父亲的育儿实践和行为与研究基础之间的知识差距在儿童精神病理学领域最为明显（Phares，1996年），这方面的信息可能是最重要的。注意力缺陷多动障碍的儿童是一组有效的治疗与行为的父母培训，但父亲的参与是典型的缺乏在这样的程序。因为在养育子女的方法上始终如一、自信和充满爱心的父母培养出的孩子具有社会能力（McCord，1991; Reid，Webster-Stratton，&哈蒙德，2003），以及父母监督不力和不一致或惩罚性的纪律策略预测了一些负面的青少年和成人结果（弗里克和Loney，1999年; Loeber和Hay，1997年），让父亲参与父母培训对公共卫生和ADHD儿童的长期结果具有重要意义。本申请旨在开发和评估特别为父亲设计的养育计划，其旨在使他们参与和保持治疗，同时还教授用于改善患有ADHD的儿童的行为的基于证据的策略。父亲计划旨在整合两个现有的常用于ADHD儿童的手动治疗计划的组成部分：社区父母教育计划（科普; Cunningham等人，1998年）和夏季治疗计划（STP; Pelham等人，1998年）。该应用程序的具体目标是为父亲和相关程序材料开发一种手动治疗;在小型临床试验中调查父亲对对照组的新型育儿计划的功效;并调查将新型基于父亲的干预整合到包括母亲和父亲的标准行为父母培训计划中的功效。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Due to the importance of parenting on a host of outcomes, a tremendous fund of information on the parenting behavior of mothers of both normal and deviant children has accrued over the past century. Yet, research on fathers, fatherhood, and how fathers parent their children is sorely lacking. The knowledge gap between fathers' parenting practices and behavior and the research base is most pronounced in the area of child psychopathology (Phares, 1996), the area where this information is possibly the most important. Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are one group effectively treated with behavioral parent training, but father involvement is typically lacking in such programs. Because parents who are consistent, self-confident, and affectionate in their approach to parenting raise socially competent children (McCord, 1991; Reid, Webster-Stratton, & Hammond, 2003), and poor parental monitoring and inconsistent or punitive discipline strategies predict a number of negative adolescent and adult outcomes (Frick & Loney, 1999; Loeber & Hay, 1997), engaging fathers in parent training has important implications for public health and the long term outcomes of children with ADHD. The present application aims to develop and evaluate a parenting program designed especially for fathers that aims to engage and retain them in treatment while also teaching evidence based strategies for improving the behavior of children with ADHD. The fathers program aims to integrate components from two existing manualized treatment programs commonly used with children with ADHD: the Community Parent Education program (COPE; Cunningham et al., 1998) and the summer treatment program (STP; Pelham et al., 1998). The specific aims of the application are to develop a manualized treatment for fathers and related program materials; investigate the efficacy of the novel parenting program for fathers to a control group in a small clinical trial; and investigate the efficacy of integrating the novel father-based intervention into a standard behavioral parent training program that includes mothers and fathers.