Parent‐training/education programmes in the management of children with conduct disorders: developing an integrated evidence‐based perspective for health and social care
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/17466660200600031 |
| Pages | 47-60 |
| Date | 01 December 2006 |
| Published date | 01 December 2006 |
| Author | Nick Gould,Joanna Richardson |
| Subject Matter | Education,Health & social care,Sociology |
47
Journal of Children’s Services
Volume 1 Issue 4 December 2006
©Pavilion Journals (Brighton) Ltd
Abstract
This article reports on the first health technology appraisal conducted jointly between the National
Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). The
appraisal systematically reviewed evidence for the clinical effectiveness of parent-training/education
programmes in the management of children with conduct disorders. This appraisal is highly topical in the
light of cross-cutting policy agendas concerned with increasing parenting capacity. It is also
methodologically innovative in its approach to synthesising the meta-analysis of trial evidence on
outcomes of programmes with qualitative evidence on process and implementation. The appraisal found
parent-training/education programmes to be effective in the management of children with conduct
disorders, and it identifies the generic characteristics of effective programmes. It is concluded that this
approach offers an exemplar for the development of systematic reviewing of complex psychosocial
interventions that are relevant to integrated children’s services.
Key words
conduct disorders; parent education; parent training; technology appraisal
1Professor of Social
Work, University of
Bath, UK
2Health Technology
Analyst, National
Institute for Health
and Clinical
Excellence (NICE)
Introduction
Within the western developed world there is a
growing concern about the confidence and
competence of parents to provide adequately for the
social and psychological development of their
children. This is very evident in the UK, where
developing parenting capacity has been a consistent
and pervasive element of the New Labour
Government’s social policy, combining inter-related
strands from the areas of health, social care,
education, crime and anti-social behaviour,and social
exclusion. This includes, inter alia:
Parent-training/education
programmes in the
management of children with
conduct disorders: developing
an integrated evidence-based
perspective for health and
social care
Nick Gould1and Joanna Richardson2
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