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- Title
Treatment Efficacy of Multiple Family Therapy for Chinese Families of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
- Authors
Ma, Joyce L. C.; Lai, Kelly Y. C.; Xia, Lily Li Li
- Abstract
The treatment efficacy of multiple family therapy (MFT) for Chinese families of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has not been studied in the past. In this paper, the effect of MFT on different aspects of the lives of the parents in the experimental group (n = 61) was compared with the effect of only the psychoeducational talks on parents in the control group (n = 53). The results of a MANOVA have shown that by the time they reached the posttreatment phase, the parents who had completed the full 42 hours of the MFT program perceived their children's ADHD symptoms as being less serious and less pathological than they had originally thought compared to the parents in the control group. The effect of MFT on parent–child relationships, parenting stress, parental efficacy, hope, and perceived social support was statistically insignificant. Contributions and limitations of our study are discussed.
- Subjects
ANALYSIS of variance; ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder; CHINESE people; CLINICAL medicine; FAMILY psychotherapy; EVALUATION of medical care; MULTIVARIATE analysis; PARENT-child relationships; PARENTING; RESEARCH funding; TREATMENT effectiveness; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; PSYCHOEDUCATION
- Publication
Family Process, 2018, Vol 57, Issue 2, p399
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/famp.12297