Parent Training and Emotion Coaching for Children With Limited Prosocial Emotions (HNC-EC)

University of Washington

Status: Completed

Conditions: Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Parent Training only; Behavioral: Parent Training plus Emotion Coaching

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02409992

STUDY00000931

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed research will focus on the development of a brief emotion-coaching (EC) parenting program (which directly targets child emotion awareness/recognition and affective empathy), that will be combined with a well-established parent management training program (Helping the Noncompliant Child; HNC) for treating oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) in children who also have limited prosocial emotions (e.g., lack of guilt and empathy, callous use of others).

Enrollment: 43 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 7 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Child with oppositional defiant disorder and low prosocial emotions

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to speak/understand English
• Significant developmental delay or autism spectrum disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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43 participants in 2 patient groups

Parent Training plus Emotion Coaching

Experimental group

Description:

This intervention will combine a parent management training program called Helping the Noncompliant Child with elements of an Emotion Coaching parenting intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Parent Training plus Emotion Coaching

Parent Training Only

Active Comparator group

Description:

This intervention will consist of a parent management training program called Helping the Noncompliant Child.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Parent Training only