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Maintenance of treatment gains: a comparison of enhanced, standard, and self-directed Triple P-Positive Parenting Program.

Sanders MR, Bor W, Morawska A

The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. matts@psy.uq.edu.au

This report describes the 3 year outcomes of three different variants of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program, a behavioural family intervention. Families were randomly assigned to one of three intervention conditions or to a waitlist condition. At 1 year follow-up there were similar improvements on observational and self-report measures of preschooler disruptive behaviour for Enhanced, Standard and Self Directed variants of Triple P. At 3 year follow-up (completed by 139 families), each condition showed a similar level of maintenance of intervention effects. Approximately 2/3 of preschoolers who were clinically elevated on measures of disruptive behaviour at pre-intervention moved from the clinical to the non-clinical range. Across conditions, there was a comparable preventive effect for each intervention for these high risk children. The implications of the findings for the development of brief, cost effective parenting interventions within a public health framework are discussed.

Published 21 September 2007 in J Abnorm Child Psychol, 35(6): 983-98.
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