title: Family management styles and ADHD: utility and treatment implications.
abstract: A previous study identified four family management styles (FMSs) exhibited in families with children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and suggested that understanding how families deal with a child's ADHD would provide additional information from which to create effective interventions. The present study used the FMS typology with a sample of children and adolescents with ADHD with the aims of demonstrating that FMSs could be reliably identified in a different clinical sample and clarifying changes in FMS that occur with treatment. All four FMSs were reliably identified in the sample and more than half of the families (56.3%) improved to a higher functioning FMS with treatment. The findings suggest that FMSs can elicit important information about family functioning and may assist clinical understanding of the child-family interaction that in turn facilitates treatment.
authors.affiliation: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, USA. kconlon2@gmail.com
authors.forename: Kyle E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Conlon
authors.forename: Carla G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Strassle
authors.forename: Doc
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vinh
authors.forename: Garrett
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Trout
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D022143:Family Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009679:Nuclear Family / Q000523:psychology*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D016896:Treatment Outcome