Responding to Children and Adolescents With Tyrannical Behaviour (REACT)

University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Non-Violent Resistance parental training

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05567276

RECHMPL17_0155

Details and patient eligibility

About

This was a randomized controlled trial that compared the NVR intervention group with a TAU group during a four-months period in reducing stress in parents of children aged 6-20 years and displaying severe tyrannical behaviour (STB).

Enrollment: 82 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 20 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. being the parent of a child aged 6 - 20 years who endorses the DSM-5 criteria of IODD. In fact, ODD is considered a necessary but not a sufficient condition for tyranny behavior

2. two or more positive answers to the custom quetions routinely used to identify STB in children/adolescents at the University Hospital of Montpellier), related to a 12 month period :

   • Are you afraid of your child?
   • Is your child physically or psychologically violent toward you?
   • Do you think that your child is the decision maker in the family?
   • Do you feel ashamed by your situation at home?

3. being able to attend half of the sessions.

Exclusion criteria

1. predicted absence from at least half of the sessions
2. subject deprived of liberty
3. subject under guardianship or curatorship.

Trial design

82 participants in 2 patient groups

Group 1

Description:

Group : Non-Violent Resistance parental training (NVR)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Non-Violent Resistance parental training

Group 2

Description:

Group 2 : Treatment as usual (TAU) = Control