Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills: Parental Outcomes With an ADHD Sample |
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| Authors: | Kelsey Gonring Alyson Gerdes Denise Gardner |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA;2. Department of Psychology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA;3. Department of Pediatric Psychology, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA |
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| Abstract: | The goal of the current study was to examine the effect of the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®), a 14-week parent-assisted friendship-building program for adolescents with ADHD, on parental functioning, quality of the parent-adolescent relationship, and family functioning. Participants included 25 parents of adolescents with ADHD. Families completed PEERS®. Measures of parenting stress, parental efficacy, parent-adolescent communication, parent-adolescent involvement, causal attributions for negative social interactions, and family chaos were completed by parents at pre- and post-treatment. Parents demonstrated statistically significant improvements in parenting stress and parent-adolescent communication and marginally statistically significant improvement in parental efficacy. Parents also demonstrated reliable change in parenting stress, parent-adolescent communication, parent-adolescent involvement, and family chaos. Overall, these findings demonstrate the benefit of PEERS® at improving parental functioning, quality of the parent-adolescent relationship, and family functioning for families of adolescents with ADHD. |
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| Keywords: | ADHD intervention parental functioning PEERS social skills |
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