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Abstract
In a comparative group outcome study involving 40 parents of children with disruptive behaviour disorders, it was found that compared with controls, those who participated in the Parenting Plus Programme reported greater gains in the attainment of personal parenting goals. Also, there were trends for participants in the Parenting Plus Programme to report fewer child behaviour problems on the externalizing scale of the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL) and the total problems, conduct problems and hyperactivity scales of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). In addition, compared with controls, parents who participated in the Programme reported significant improvements in parent-child interaction on the Parenting Stress Index. Gains on the Parent Goals Scales, the total problem scale ofthe SDQ and the externalizing scale of the CBCL were maintained at 5.5 months follow-up. With respect to clinical significance, compared with controls, twice as many parents who participated in the Parenting Plus Programme reported that their children had moved from the clinical to the non-clinical range on the total problem scale of the SDQ and the externalizing scale of the CBCL by the end of the programme. Compared with non-improvers, improvers had less severe behavioural and psychosomatic difficulties and more severe emotional problems at intake and their parents were more distressed and had less familial social support.