Parent Training for Families with Hyperactive Preschoolers

There is a large literature suggesting that parent training is effective in preventing and treating both early and later conduct problems, but only a handful of studies have tested such programs for preschool children with ADHD. Our lab, in collaboration with Dr. Rebecca Stowe, developed a parenting program designed specifically for parents of hyperactive preschoolers. While it shares many features common to other parent training programs, the curriculum is designed to address issues unique to this stage of development and to parenting children with hyperactivity. Furthermore, because emotion regulation is a major developmental task of the preschool years and because children with ADHD are often challenged in this area, we have developed a component to the training that directly helps parents facilitate hyperactive children's emotion regulation. Our evaluation of the effectiveness of was published here:

Herbert, S., Harvey, E., Roberts, J., Wichowski, K., & Lugo-Candelas (2013). A randomized controlled trial of a parent training and emotion socialization program for families of hyperactive preschool-aged children. Behavior Therapy, 44, 302-316.

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