Background: Behavioural parent training is effective in improving child disruptive behavioural problems in preschool children by increasing parenting competence. The indicated Prevention Programme for Externalizing Problem behaviour (PEP) is a group training programme for parents and kindergarten teachers of children aged 36 years with externalizing behavioural problems. Aims: To evaluate the effects of PEP on child problem behaviour, parenting practices, parent-child interactions, and parental quality of life. Method: Parents and kindergarten teachers of 155 children were randomly assigned to an intervention group (n = 91) and a nontreated control group (n = 64). They rated children's problem behaviour before and after PEP training; parents also reported on their parenting practices and quality of life. Standardized play situations were video-taped and rated for parent-child interactions, e.g. parental warmth. Results: In the intention to treat analysis, mothers of the intervention group described less disruptive child behaviour and better parenting strategies, and showed more parental warmth during a standardized parent-child interaction. Dosage analyses confirmed these results for parents who attended at least five training sessions. Children were also rated to show less behaviour problems by their kindergarten teachers. Conclusions: Training effects were especially positive for parents who attended at least half of the training sessions. © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2009.
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Hanisch, C., Freund-Braier, I., Hautmann, C., Jnen, N., Plck, J., Brix, G., … Dpfner, M. (2010). Detecting effects of the indicated prevention Programme for Externalizing Problem behaviour (PEP) on child symptoms, parenting, and parental quality of life in a randomized controlled trial. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 38(1), 95–112. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465809990440
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