Peer Rejection among Children with Conduct Disorder: Compare Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Behavioral Parent Training

Somaieh Salehi

doi:10.4172/2151-6200.100070

Abstract

This study aims to compare Making Choices program and Barkley Behavioral Parent Training on the peer rejection of Iranian children with Conduct Disorder. A total of 136 Iranian children between 8 and 10 years old with Conduct Disorder participated in the study. The peer rejection questionnaire was used to check the results of educating. Making Choices program to children and Barkley Behavioral Parent Training to parents of them. The results of the analysis of repeated measure Anova revealed a significant difference between, Making Choices program, Behavioral Parent training, and a combination of two programs. It showed that three kinds of interventions include Making Choices program, Barkley Behavioral Parent Training and combination of both interventions resulted in decreasing of peer rejection in same level at the time of follow up. It is suggested that the combination of both programs is more effective in a short period of time. However, both kinds of interventions decreased peer rejection of children with Conduct Disorder in a long period of time. The time of follow-up indicated that peer rejection of children decreased more in the group with the combination of both programs. It is recommended to carry out an investigation and compare the teacher and parent rating on symptoms of children with Conduct Disorder.

Highlights

According to DSM-V, Conduct Disorder (CD) is one of the important forms of externalizing disorder
Operationalized working hypothesis: Peer rejection of children with CD, aged 8-10 years will change when they participate in group MCP in first group, or their parents participate in group with Barkley Behavioral Parent Training (BBPT), or children and their parents participate in the combination of both programs
The results of this study showed three kinds of interventions include Making Choices program, Barkley Behavioral Parent Training, and combination of both MC and BBPT which are based on CognitiveBehavioral intervention and Behavioral Parent Training decreased the peer rejection of children with Conduct Disorder

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Introduction

According to DSM-V, Conduct Disorder (CD) is one of the important forms of externalizing disorder. According to DSM-5 “The specifier applies to those individuals with more serious pattern of behavior characterized by a callous and unemotional interpersonal style across multiple settings and relationships” [2]. The prevalence of this disorder is between 6% and 16% for boys and between 2% and 9% for girls [3]. Children with CD often use aggressive behavior to respond to other peers and people [4] These children suffer of their own behaviors, consume the most expensive resources of the society, and create problems for themselves, their families, peers, and teachers at school [5]

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