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Kolko (1996)
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55 families |
- |
Individual psychotherapy |
RCT Pre-test/Post-test Follow-up: 1 year |
Improvement in: child to parent aggression, children's externalizing behavior, parental stress, abuse risk and family conflict |
0.77 b(Medium) |
Restrictions in the application with participants with low intellectual level, psychiatric problems and very young children |
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Kolko, Iselin, & Gully (2011)
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52 families |
Alternatives for Families: Cognitive- Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT) |
Individual psychotherapy |
Pre-test/Post-test |
Improvements in parental and children performance in the instruments used |
0.54 b(Medium) |
Lack of evidence-based methodology (RCT) and independent measures (observation) |
| Borrego, Urquiza, Rasmussen, & Zebell (1999) |
1 mother-child dyad |
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) |
Coaching |
Pre-test/Post-test Follow-up I: 5 months Follow-up II: 16 months |
Reduction of: child behavior problems, maternal and child's stress and increased frequency of positive mother-child interactions |
- |
Sessions held in an experimental environment (no guarantee of generalization); information with siblings not collected |
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Chaffin et al. (2004)
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110 parent-child dyads |
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) |
Group orientation and Coaching |
RCT Pre-test/Post-test Follow-up: 28 months |
Declined frequency of parent to child aggressions and reduction of physical abuse reports |
2.17b(Large) |
Could not control the therapist variable; inclusion in pre-test of older children who did not have behavior problems |
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Nicholson, Anderson, Fox, & Brenner (2002)
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26 parents |
STAR |
Group psychotherapy |
RCT Pre-test/Post-test Follow-up: 1 month |
Significant decreased levels of: verbal and corporal punishment against children, anger, stress and reports of child behavior problems |
0.83b(Large) |
Reduced sample; difficulties in scheduling sessions; low-return of instruments answered by teachers |
| Santos & Williams (2008) |
1 family |
- |
Group psychotherapy |
Pre-test/Post-test Follow-up: 6 months |
Elimination of parent to child aggression; maintenance at 24 week follow-up |
- |
Not reported by authors |
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Runyon, Deblinger, & Schroeder (2009)
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12 caregivers and 21 children |
Combined Parent-Child Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CPC-CBT) |
Group psychotherapy |
Pre-test/Post-test |
General improvement in emotional and behavioral functioning of both parents and their children; decreased occurrence of corporal punishment reports |
1.46a(Large) |
Reduced sample and lack of solid methodology (RCT, comparison group, follow-up) |
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Kjellgren, Svedin, & Nilsson (2013)
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18 families |
Combined Parent-Child Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CPC-CBT) |
Group psychotherapy |
Pre-test/Post-test |
Reduction of parent and children's depression symptoms; reduction of violent and inconsistent parenting strategies |
0.71a(Medium) |
Reduced sample; lack of solid methodology; difficulties in transferring an American program to Sweden |
| Swenson et al. (2010) |
86 families |
Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN) |
Individual psychotherapy |
RCT Pre-test/Post-test Follow-up: 16 months |
Declined frequency of: parent to child aggression and neglect; improvement of health symptoms in children and parents |
0.85a(Large) |
Restrictions for statistical analysis and generalization of the results due to supervision |