Long-term effects of oppositional child treatment with mothers as therapists and therapist trainers. J Appl Behav Anal 1982;15(1):163-9
Date
01/01/1982Pubmed ID
7096225Pubmed Central ID
PMC1308255DOI
10.1901/jaba.1982.15-163Scopus ID
2-s2.0-0020111122 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 48 CitationsAbstract
The follow-up data reported represent a long-term (3 to 9 years out of treatment) evaluation of 40 children who were clients of the Regional Intervention Program (RIP) from 1969 to 1978. As 3-, 4-, and 5-year olds, these youngsters exhibited severe and prolonged tantrums, continual opposition to adults' requests and commands, and physical aggression toward parents. Each child and mother participated in a standardized intervention package modeled after Wahler's Opposition Child Treatment. Results from school and home-based follow-up showed that: (a) commands, demands, or requests made by parents were likely to be followed by former clients' compliance; (b) former clients' social interactions in the homes were overwhelmingly positive and their nonsocial behavior was by and large appropriate; (c) parent behavior in the home was consistent with the child management skills taught many years ago; (d) there were no differences between the compliant, on-task, social interaction and appropriate/inappropriate nonsocial behaviors of former clients and randomly selected class peers; (e) there were no differences in teachers' commands, negative feedback, positive social reinforcement, and repeated commands that were directed toward either former clients or randomly selected class peers; (f) both teachers' and parents' rating of former clients on the modified Walker Problem Behavior Checklist were highly correlated; (g) there were no differences in teachers' rating of former clients and class peers; and (h) of all the studied demographic variables, only age that treatment began and family intactness were related to current levels of behavior.
Author List
Strain PS, Steele P, Ellis T, Timm MAAuthor
Mark A. Timm MD Assistant Professor in the Surgery department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
Behavior TherapyChild
Child Behavior Disorders
Child, Preschool
Cooperative Behavior
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Male
Mother-Child Relations
