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- Title
An Interactional Approach to Intervention Research with Children Diagnosed with ADHD.
- Authors
Heriot, Sandra A.; Evans, Ian M.; Foster, Therese M.
- Abstract
We present a general model for intervention with children diagnosed with ADHD that emphasizes the nature of the dyadic interaction between parent and child as the critical focus of concern. Conventional treatment outcome research designs, however, do not easily permit the testing of this or any other generative model. We explain why, and critique the clinical value of certain research strategies that are extolled as the ultimate for clinical research but which cannot, in fact, answer the questions of most interest to clinicians who need to develop individualized treatments within a generalized (molar), valid theory. Sophisticated behavioral descriptions are able to embrace fully the complexity of different therapeutic forms all adhering to one functional principle, but experimental group designs are not. Furthermore, sophisticated behavior theory is well able to incorporate “nonspecific” influences in treatment, the importance of which clinical and research observation have repeatedly documented, whereas more conventional group comparison designs have to treat these effects as error. We would judge doing so as the real error, to the extent that research tries to illuminate the critical features of treatment.
- Subjects
ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder; BEHAVIOR disorders in children; PARENT-child relationships; FAMILIES; INTERPERSONAL relations; MEDICAL research
- Publication
Journal of Child & Family Studies, 2001, Vol 10, Issue 3, p287
- ISSN
1062-1024
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1012572725227