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Are parental changes related to improvements in preschool children's disruptive behaviours?
Author(s) -
VeenMulders Lianne,
Hoekstra Pieter J.,
Nauta Maaike H.,
Hoofdakker Barbara J.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
clinical psychology and psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.315
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1099-0879
pISSN - 1063-3995
DOI - 10.1002/cpp.2402
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , competence (human resources) , parent training , clinical psychology , parenting skills , social psychology , intervention (counseling) , psychiatry
Objective To investigate whether changes in parenting after behavioural parent training in routine clinical care are associated with improvements in preschool children's disruptive behaviours. Method We evaluated changes after parent training in maternal and paternal self‐reports of parental discipline practices parenting sense of competence, and parents' ratings of child disruptive behaviours in parents of 63 children, with a one group pretest–posttest design. We also compared parenting parameters in this clinical sample with a nonclinical sample ( n = 121). Results Mothers' self‐reports of parental discipline practices and parenting sense of competence significantly improved after behavioural parent training. Less over‐reactivity in both mothers and fathers was associated with fewer disruptive behaviours in children. After parent training, mothers' ratings of their discipline techniques did not differ anymore from those in the nonclinical sample. Conclusion Positive changes in parental discipline practices, particularly less over‐reactive parental behaviours, were related to a decrease of disruptive child behaviours.