Parent—child interaction therapy and dysfluency: a single‐case study

Matthews, Sharon; Williams, Roberta; Pring, Tim

doi:10.3109/13682829709017900

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“…Measures included observations of parent–child interaction, parental reports of the referred child and siblings’ behaviour, the teacher's report of the child's behaviour, and parents’ self‐reports on their individual functioning, their relationship to one another and their satisfaction with the process and outcome of treatment. The potential efficacy of this approach was also supported by Matthews et al . (1997), who found through the use of a single‐case methodology significant therapeutic improvements following 17 sessions, and by Herschell et al .…”

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Strengthening the parent–child relationship: a review of family interventions and their use in medical settings

Johnson

Kent

Leather³

2005

Child

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The quality of family functioning is important for both psychological well-being and physical health. This review describes family interventions that aim to improve the strength of the parent-child relationship and considers ways in which these approaches can be applied to physical health care. This review first describes the development of family therapy in dealing with children's behavioural and emotional difficulties. As shown in psychotherapeutic settings, parenting skills can affect children's emotional well-being and ability to control their own conduct. Intervention strategies that focus on developing the ability of parents to provide a benign and nurturing parenting style are considered. The review then considers how the principles of family therapy can be applied to settings where physical health is the central issue. In medical settings, families are not only affected by medical interventions but they can also serve to facilitate or hinder clinical effectiveness. Illustrations of how these interventions can be applied in medical settings are provided. Although a practising clinician will need training in using family therapy techniques, it may be possible to recruit a family therapist to help in particular cases.

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confidence: 54%

Strengthening the parent–child relationship: a review of family interventions and their use in medical settings

Johnson

Kent

Leather³

2005

Child

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“…These authors used a repeated‐measures, single‐subject design, which is a methodology that has been used to investigate the efficacy of therapy for children who stutter (Matthews et al . , Millard et al . ) and has advantages when research is conducted in real‐world clinical settings.…”

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Effectiveness of intensive, group therapy for teenagers who stutter

Fry

Millard

Botterill

2013

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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Background: Treatment of adolescents who stutter is an under-researched area that would benefit from greater attention. Aims: To investigate whether an intensive treatment programme for older teenagers who stutter, aged over 16 years of age, is effective in reducing overt and covert aspects of stuttering. Methods & Procedures:A repeated-measures, single-subject experimental design was replicated across participants. The study consisted of a 5-week baseline phase, 2-week intensive treatment phase, 5-week consolidation phase and 10-month follow-up phase. Participants were asked to make ten video recordings at home during each phase, while completing a reading and a conversation task. Recordings were analysed in terms of the percentage of stuttered syllables using a simplified time-series analysis. Participants completed self-report questionnaires at predetermined times throughout the study. Data are presented for three males aged 17;7, 17;11 and 18;10. Outcomes & Results:One participant completed all required recordings. Difficulties were encountered collecting follow-up data with the other two participants and data are available up to 5 months after the intensive therapy phase. A significant trend of reduced frequency of stuttering was found for all three participants during the intensive therapy phase. This trend continued throughout the consolidation phase and remained significant when available longer-term data were included in the analysis. Participants also reported increased self-efficacy about speaking and reduced overt and covert aspects of stammering. Conclusions & Implications:Findings show that this therapy programme for teenagers had a significant treatment effect for the participants studied in the short-and medium-term, however longer-term data were not available for all participants. Issues in conducting research with this client group are discussed.

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“…PCIT is widely used in speech and language therapy in the UK. Results of its use in dysfluency (Mathews et al, 1997; Millard et al, 2008, 2009) and recently with older children with language disorders (Allen and Marshall, 2011) have been published. It is commonly used with young children with delayed language but evidence for its effectiveness is lacking.…”

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“…The use of PCIT with children who stammer has been examined in single case and case series studies (see Mathews et al, 1997; Millard et al, 2008, 2009) and a recent paper (Allen and Marshall, 2011) has reported its use with 8–10-year-old children with specific language impairment (SLI). The former studies conducted within the Michael Palin Centre, London investigated the style of PCIT developed there.…”

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Assessing the effectiveness of parent–child interaction therapy with language delayed children: A clinical investigation

Falkus

Tilley

Thomas

et al. 2015

Child Language Teaching and Therapy

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Parent–child interaction therapy (PCIT) is widely used by speech and language therapists to improve the interactions between children with delayed language development and their parents/carers. Despite favourable reports of the therapy from clinicians, little evidence of its effectiveness is available. We investigated the effects of PCIT as practised by clinicians within a clinical setting. Eighteen consecutive children referred for speech and language therapy because of their delayed language were entered in the study. A within-participants design was used, and the procedure was similar to that used clinically. Blind assessments were conducted twice before therapy to monitor change without therapy and once after completing PCIT. Significant changes in a parent rating scale, the children’s mean length of utterance and the ratio of time of child to parent speech were found after the therapy. No changes were detected prior to therapy. The similarity of the design to clinical practice and the use of several clinicians suggest that the findings can be generalized to other settings and clinicians. These findings are a first step in evaluating PCIT; we now need to show that parents can maintain their newly acquired skills in interaction, and that this benefits their children’s communication.

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Parent—child interaction therapy and dysfluency: a single‐case study

Cited by 12 publications

References 31 publications

Strengthening the parent–child relationship: a review of family interventions and their use in medical settings

Strengthening the parent–child relationship: a review of family interventions and their use in medical settings

Effectiveness of intensive, group therapy for teenagers who stutter

Assessing the effectiveness of parent–child interaction therapy with language delayed children: A clinical investigation

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