Innovations in Practice: Adapting a specialized ADHD parenting programme for use with "hard to reach' and "difficult to treat' preschool children

Abstract

Background: Effective implementation of parent training programmes for preschool Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder type is constrained by barriers limiting take-up and effective engagement by ‘hard to reach’ and ‘difficult to treat’ families. Method: We describe an evidence-driven adaptation and piloting of an existing empirically supported preschool ADHD parenting programme to address these problems. Results: The New Forest Parenting programme was changed substantially in terms of length; content and delivery on the basis of information gathered from the literature, from parents and practitioners, further modifications were made after the pilot study. Conclusions: The adapted-NFPP is currently being assessed for efficacy in a large multicentre randomized controlled trial.

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Authors/Creators:

McEwan, F
Thompson, M
Laver-Bradbury, C
Jefferson, H
Koerting, J
Smith, E
Knowles, M
McCann, D
Daley, D
Barton, J
Latter, S
Elsey, H
Sonuga-Barke, E

(c) 2014, The Authors. Child and Adolescent Mental Health published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

Keywords:

Parent training; new forest parenting programme; preschool children; Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder; treatment barriers

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