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Child Neuropsychology
A Journal on Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence
Volume 24, 2018 - Issue 4
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Sequenced neurocognitive and behavioral parent training for the treatment of ADHD in school-age children

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Pages 427-450 | Received 07 Jul 2016, Accepted 03 Jan 2017, Published online: 23 Feb 2017
 

ABSTRACT

The present study examines the potential of sequencing a neurocognitive intervention with behavioral parent training (BPT) to improve executive functions (EFs), psychiatric symptoms, and multiple indices of functional impairment in school-age children aged 7 to 11 years who have been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Specifically, in a randomized controlled trial design, 85 children were assigned to either Cogmed Working Memory Training (CWMT) followed by an empirically supported, manualized BPT intervention, or to a placebo version of CWMT followed by the same BPT intervention. Working memory maintenance (i.e., attention control/short-term memory), working memory processing and manipulation, ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) symptoms, impairment in parent–child dynamics, familial impairment, and overall functional compromise were evaluated as outcomes. The results suggest specific effects of the combined CWMT and BPT program on verbal and nonverbal working memory storage and nonverbal working memory processing and manipulation but no incremental benefits in regard to ADHD symptoms, ODD symptoms, and functional outcomes. The present findings do not support the hypothesis regarding the complementary and augmentative benefits of sequenced neurocognitive and BPT interventions for the treatment of ADHD. These results, the study’s limitations, and future directions for research are further discussed.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the families who participated in this study and Pearson and CogMed for their partnership, participation and support in conducting the clinical trial. We would also like to thank our research coordinators, Catherine McRoy, Natalie Davila, and Edna Tellez.

Disclosure statement

Dr. Bedard has consulted for Ehave, Inc., from August 2015-August 2016, a software development company that has developed online remediation tools for ADHD.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health [grant number R34MH088845].

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