title: Behavior management for school-aged children with ADHD.
abstract: Behavior management treatments are the most commonly used nonpharmacologic approaches for treating attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and associated impairments. This review focuses on behavioral parent training interventions for school-age children in the home setting and adjunctive treatments developed to extend effects across settings. Empirical support includes numerous randomized clinical trials, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses showing positive effects of these interventions on child compliance, ADHD symptoms and impairments, parent-child interactions, parenting and parenting stress. These studies support categorization of behavior management treatment as a well-established, evidence-based treatment of ADHD. Factors for consideration in clinical decision making and directions for research are provided.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0984, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. Electronic address: lindap@lppi.ucsf.edu.
authors.forename: Linda J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Pfiffner
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Avenue, G06, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
authors.forename: Lauren M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Haack
mesh_terms: D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000628:therapy*; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education*; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; Behavior management; Children; Evidence-based treatment; Parent training