The results revealed that findings are becoming increasingly nuanced with variations in levels of evidence related to ages of the children and characteristics of the specific treatment .
In addition , we focused our critique on generalization of treatment effects across setting s and time and on sample diversity ( with regard to ethnicity and levels of parent education ) in relation to the population .
Children of parents with higher levels of education than average appear to be overrepresented in the literature .
The purpose of this research was to up date the series of articles on evidence -based treatment for children and adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder that have appeared in this journal ( Evans , Owens & Bunford , 2014 ; Pelham & Fabiano , 2008 ; Pelham , Wheeler , & Chronis , 1998 ) .
Evaluating Clinically Significant Change in Mother and Child Functioning: Comparison of Traditional and Enhanced Behavioral Parent Training
The Strategies to Enhance Positive Parenting ( STEPP ) program , an enhanced behavioral parent training ( BPT ) intervention , was developed to improve engagement in and outcomes following treatment for single-mother families of school-age youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ) . A previous r and omized clinical trial of the STEPP program demonstrated that the intervention result ed in statistically significant improvements at the group-level in child oppositional behavior , various areas of child impairment , parental stress , and parenting behavior , relative to a wait-list control condition and a traditional BPT group . Despite benefits at the group-level , little is known about outcomes at the individual-level of enhanced BPT relative to traditional BPT for various child- and parent-level outcomes . The current study compares the extent to which traditional BPT and the STEPP program result in reliable change and recovery across various child- and parent-level outcomes in a sample of 80 , 5–12 year old youth with ADHD ( 70 % male ) . Analyses demonstrated the benefit of participating in either BPT treatment ; and participation in the STEPP program compared to traditional BPT was associated with only minimal incremental clinical benefit . Results , as well as clinical and research implication s for assessment and treatment of high-risk families of youth with ADHD enrolled in BPT  are discussed
The results revealed that findings are becoming increasingly nuanced with variations in levels of evidence related to ages of the children and characteristics of the specific treatment .
In addition , we focused our critique on generalization of treatment effects across setting s and time and on sample diversity ( with regard to ethnicity and levels of parent education ) in relation to the population .
Children of parents with higher levels of education than average appear to be overrepresented in the literature .
The purpose of this research was to up date the series of articles on evidence -based treatment for children and adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder that have appeared in this journal ( Evans , Owens & Bunford , 2014 ; Pelham & Fabiano , 2008 ; Pelham , Wheeler , & Chronis , 1998 ) .