title: Parenting skills training: an effective intervention for internalizing symptoms in younger children?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  A number of interventions are effective in treating older children with internalizing symptoms. However, little is known about the efficacy of psychological interventions in treating younger children. This study examined the impact on internalizing symptoms of a parenting skills training program.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty-three parents took part in a parenting skills training program. Externalizing and internalizing behaviors were measured before and after treatment and after a 6-month period.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Externalizing symptoms fell after treatment. Interestingly, internalizing scores fell to an approximately equivalent degree.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An intervention targeted towards parenting may be efficacious in the treatment of children's internalizing symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Manchester, UK. sam.cartwright-hatton@man.ac.uk
authors.forename: Sam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cartwright-Hatton
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: McNally
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: Chrissie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Verduyn
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004505:Education, Nonprofessional / Q000379:methods*; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D016487:Parenting; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000379:methods; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome