Treatment Acceptability of Behavioral Interventions for Children: An Assessment by Mothers of Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorders

Jones, Melanie; Eyberg, Sheila M.; Adams, Christina D.; Boggs, Stephen R.

doi:10.1300/j019v20n04_02

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“…Chinese caregivers considered positive strategies (i.e., socially reinforcing compliance and general responsivity during play) more acceptable than the other seven BFT components. This finding is consistent with data from European American caregivers (e.g., Cross-Calvert and McMahon 1987;Jones et al 1998). However, this finding contradicts the reports that Chinese parents in Hong Kong are hesitant to use praise (Ho et al 1999;Leung et al 2009).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…All five HNC techniques, however, were rated very positively. Jones et al (1998) examined acceptability of six behavioral techniques among 20 mothers of children with disruptive behavior disorder. They found positive reinforcement was rated as a more acceptable treatment technique than response cost, TO, differential attention, overcorrection, and spanking.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Acceptability of Behavioral Family Therapy among Caregivers in China

Roberts

Wong

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J Child Fam Stud

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In the U.S., helping the noncompliant child and parent child interaction therapy represent behavioral family therapy programs that are empirically supported for treating the conduct problems of 2-to 7-year old children. This study examined how caregivers in China would view behavioral family therapy. Caregivers in Hangzhou, China reported the perceived age of deviance for behavioral family therapy targets (e.g., noncompliance) and rated the acceptability of behavioral treatment components (e.g., timeout). Chinese caregivers agreed with EuropeanAmerican culture on considering noncompliance, aggression, tantrums, and negative talk deviant during the preschool period. Overall, Chinese caregivers considered all the following nine behavioral family therapy components acceptable: contingent praise, responsive play, ignoring deviant attention seeking, authoritative instruction-giving, warnings, chair timeouts, ignoring tantrums during timeout, room backups for chair timeouts, and immediate timeouts for aggression. However, specific parental reservations were found regarding backup procedures for chair timeouts, particularly room backups. Possible treatment accommodations of behavioral family therapy for Chinese families are discussed.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Acceptability of Behavioral Family Therapy among Caregivers in China

Roberts

Wong

et al. 2010

J Child Fam Stud

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“…On the other hand, punishment techniques, such as overcorrection and spanking, although typically discouraged in BPT, are often characteristic of Chinese parenting practices. Among Euro-North American parents, reward and withdrawal techniques are more accepted than punishment techniques, in both clinic-referred and community samples of parents (Jones et al 1998;Pemberton and Borrego 2007). Anecdotal evidence suggests low approval of BPT techniques among Chinese parents in Hong Kong, as praise was the most difficult technique for Chinese parents to implement (Lieh-Mak et al 1984;Leung et al 2009).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural Variations in Mothers’ Acceptance of and Intent to Use Behavioral Child Management Techniques

Mah

Johnston

2011

J Child Fam Stud

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We examined cultural differences in mothers' acceptance of and intent to use behavioral parenting techniques for managing disruptive child behavior, and the possible roles of parenting styles and implicit theories in explaining these cultural differences. A community sample of 117 Euro-Canadian and Chinese-immigrant mothers of boys aged 4-to 8-years participated. Chinese-immigrant mothers had more favorable attitudes towards punishment techniques (i.e., overcorrection and spanking) than EuroCanadian mothers, and mothers' authoritarian parenting style accounted for this cultural difference. No cultural differences were found in mothers' attitudes towards reward (i.e., praise and token economy) or withdrawal of positive reinforcement (i.e., response cost and time-out). This study helps to inform efforts to increase the cultural sensitivity of mental health services for the underserved population of Chinese-immigrant families.

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“…The conceptual foundation of treatment acceptability largely originates from Wolf's (1978) work on social validity. Wolf coined the term social validity to refer to the social importance of an intervention, which is conceptualised as encompassing three related levels: (a) the social significance of the treatment goals, (b) the social appropriateness of the treatment procedures, and (c) the social importance of the treatment effects (Boothe & Borrego, 2004;Carter, 2010;Finn & Sladeczek, 2001;Jones, Eyberg, Adams, & Boggs, 1998;Wolf, 1978). Of these three levels, it is the second component of Wolf's conceptualisation (i.e., the appropriateness of treatment procedures) that has dominated the focus of social validity research and contributed to the conceptual development of treatment acceptability (Carter, 2010;Finn & Sladeczek, 2001).…”

Section: Treatment Acceptability and Parental Attributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Factors that may influence parental acceptability of behavioural interventions for their child's problem behaviour include treatment characteristics (e.g., type of behavioural procedures and treatment side effects) and child characteristics (e.g., severity of problem behaviour and age of child) (Jones et al, 1998;Norton, Austen, Allen, & Hillton, 1983;Pickering & Morgan, 1985;Reimers, Wacker, Cooper, & de Raad, 1992;Singh, Watson, & Winton, 1987).…”

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Do maternal attributions play a role in the acceptability of behavioural interventions for problem behaviour in children with autism spectrum disorders?

Choi

Kovshoff

2013

Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

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The present study explored the relationship between parental attributions and treatment acceptability of behavioural interventions for problem behaviour in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).Mothers of children with ASD aged 3 to 9 years (N = 139) completed survey measures that assessed demographics, parental attributions, treatment acceptability of parent-focused and child-focused behavioural interventions, severity of their child's disruptive behaviour, and severity of their child's ASD symptoms. The results showed that parental attributions of parent-referent stability, but not the other attributional dimensions, negatively predicted treatment acceptability of a parent-focused behavioural intervention, even when severity of disruptive behaviour was statistically controlled.Conversely, no associations were found between any attributional dimension and treatment acceptability of a child-focused behavioural intervention. Preliminary analyses also revealed that mothers' ratings of the severity of their child's disruptive behaviour were significantly negatively associated with the acceptability of both parent-focused and child-focused behavioural interventions.The findings have potential implications for professionals to identify and challenge distorted attributions of parent-referent stability to promote parental acceptance of a parent-focused behavioural intervention for problem behaviour in children with ASD.Keywords: treatment acceptability, attributions, behavioural intervention, problem behaviour, autism Do maternal attributions play a role in the acceptability of behavioural interventions for problem behaviour in children with autism spectrum disorders?

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Treatment Acceptability of Behavioral Interventions for Children: An Assessment by Mothers of Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorders

Cited by 47 publications

References 12 publications

Acceptability of Behavioral Family Therapy among Caregivers in China

Acceptability of Behavioral Family Therapy among Caregivers in China

Cultural Variations in Mothers’ Acceptance of and Intent to Use Behavioral Child Management Techniques

Do maternal attributions play a role in the acceptability of behavioural interventions for problem behaviour in children with autism spectrum disorders?

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