Parent Training for Fathers of Children with ADHD

描述(由申请人提供)：由于养育子女的重要性取决于一系列的结果，在过去的一个世纪里，关于正常和异常儿童的母亲的育儿行为的大量信息已经积累起来。然而，关于父亲、父亲的身份以及父亲如何养育孩子的研究非常缺乏。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明显(Phares，1996)，这一领域的信息可能是最重要的。患有注意力缺陷多动障碍的儿童是一组有效的父母行为培训，但在这样的项目中，父亲的参与通常是缺乏的。由于一致、自信和深情的父母在育儿方式上培养了有社交能力的孩子(McCord，1991；Reid，Webster-Stratton，&Hammond，2003)，而糟糕的父母监控和不一致或惩罚性的管教策略预测了许多负面的青少年和成人结果(Frick&Loney，1999；Loeber&Hay，1997)，让父亲参与父母培训对公共健康和患有ADHD儿童的长期结果具有重要影响。本申请旨在开发和评估专门为父亲设计的育儿方案，旨在让他们参与并留住他们接受治疗，同时还传授基于证据的策略，以改善ADHD儿童的行为。父亲方案旨在整合现有的两个通常用于ADHD儿童的手动治疗方案的组成部分：社区家长教育方案(COPE；Cunningham等人，1998)和夏季治疗方案(STP；Pelham等人，1998)。该申请的具体目标是开发针对父亲的机械化治疗和相关计划材料；在一项小型临床试验中调查针对父亲的新型育儿计划的有效性；并将新型的以父亲为基础的干预措施整合到包括母亲和父亲在内的标准行为父母培训计划中，以调查其有效性。

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.