Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
ARTICLESReducing Aggressive Behavior in Boys With a Social Cognitive Group Treatment: Results of a Randomized, Controlled Trial
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Participants
The participants were 97 aggressive boys, aged 9 to 13 years (mean = 11.2, SD = 0.93). Ethnic composition sample was 79.5% white, 10% Moroccan, 6.3% Turkish, and 4.2% Surinamese-Caribbean. The socioeconomic level was lower to middle class based on the highest level of education of the parents and on their profession/occupation.
The boys were referred for treatment to outpatient mental health clinics in various cities in the Netherlands. They were admitted to the program if they met the DSM-IV
Pretreatment Comparisons
There were no statistical significant differences between conditions at pretreatment assessment on background variables, such as age, IQ, comorbidity status, race, socioeconomic level, and any of the pretest measures.
Treatment Effects
Table 3 presents the means and SDs for child, parent, and teacher outcome measures at pre- and post-test and 1-year follow-up. Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) for repeated measures were conducted on child, parent, and teacher outcome measures. The measures of MFFT, SCST,
DISCUSSION
The results of the current study support the efficacy of both the SCIP and the SST. Although children in both treatment conditions improved, children in the SCIP condition showed improvement on more outcome measures at post-test and follow-up. Overall, the mean effect sizes were larger than the mean effect sizes reported in recent meta-analyses. The results of this study support the expectation that focusing on deficits and distortions in social cognitive processes (SCIP) instead of merely
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Parts of this study were presented at the World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Vancouver, Canada, July 17-21, 2001.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the contribution of the children, parents, and teachers who participated in this study. They also thank two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this article.
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Disclosure: The authors have no financial relationships to disclose.