Abstract
This editorial discusses where we stand in understanding how parenting interventions, frequently used in the treatment of child emotional and behavioral disorders, affect the brain systems that contribute to these disorders. It concludes that although we have some evidence from RCTs that improving adverse parenting causally impacts some aspects of brain development, there is almost nothing examining parenting randomized controlled trials to treat child clinical disorders and effects on brain structure or function. It argues that if we are to be a brain science, such studies are needed.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 345-347 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The author would like to thank the following graduate students who helped with the search for parenting RCTs and brain measures: Marta Korom, Ph.D. student, Mary Dozier, University of Delaware, and Cassidy McDermott, Ph.D. student, Allyson Mackey, University of Pennsylvania. The author would like to thank Eva Telzer for sharing a preprint of a chapter reviewing parenting correlates of brain development.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Editorial