Effective treatments of school-aged conduct disordered children: recommendations for changing clinical and research practices.
The present article discusses reviews, meta-analytical and other relevant outcome studies of treating school-aged conduct-disordered children. Meta-analytical studies of Parent Management Training and Cognitive-behavioural Therapy for the child have demonstrated that these interventions affect conduct disorder in children positively. However, most studies involved in these meta-analyses are conducted in research conditions and are not representative of the treatment effectiveness in everyday clinical practice. We believe there is a gap between the so-called efficacy studies in research conditions and the effectiveness studies in clinical practice and we discuss how clinical and research practice could be brought together.
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Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Rudolph Magnus Institute for Neurosciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands. N.M.H.vandeWiel@psych.azu.nl
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Cohen-Kettenis
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van Engeland
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D000293:Adolescent; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods; D019955:Conduct Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education; D011340:Problem Solving; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards*; D016896:Treatment Outcome