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Family factors associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and emotional disorders in children

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Author(s)
Lange, Gregor 
Sheerin, Declan 
Carr, Alan 
Dooley, Barbara A. 
Barton, Victoria 
et al. 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5126
Date Issued
February 2005
Date Available
04T10:25:20Z December 2013
Abstract
Few well-controlled studies have identified psychosocial profiles of families of boys with ADHD and boys with emotional disorders compared with normal controls. However, the clinical and theoretical literature pinpoints four domains in which distinctive profiles would be expected to occur. In this study, twenty-two mothers and thirteen fathers of twenty-two boys with ADHD; twenty mothers and fifteen fathers of twenty boys with a mood or anxiety disorder; and twenty-six mothers and sixteen fathers of twenty-seven normal controls were compared on: (1) stress, support and quality of life; (2) current family functioning; (3) parenting style and satisfaction in the family of origin and current family; and (4) current and past parental functioning. The two clinical groups showed higher levels of stress and lower levels of both social support and quality of life than did normal controls. Both clinical groups showed deficits in current family functioning, but contrary to expectations the ADHD and emotional disorder group did not show distinctly different profiles. Parents of ADHD children reported higher levels of authoritarian parenting styles, and parents from both clinical groups reported less parenting satisfaction than did normal controls in both their current families and their families of origin. Parents of children with ADHD and emotional disorders reported greater parenting satisfaction in their families of origin than in their current families. This discrepancy was greatest for parents of ADHD children. Parents of children with ADHD and emotional disorders reported greater psychological health problems and more childhood ADHD symptomatology than did normal controls. Parents of children with ADHD and emotional disorders have significant psychosocial difficulties in family and personal functioning. Family intervention is highly appropriate for families with children who are referred for help with both types of difficulties..
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Journal
Journal of Family Therapy
Volume
27
Issue
1
Start Page
76
End Page
96
Copyright (Published Version)
The Association for Family Therapy 2005. Published by Blackwell Publishing
Keywords
  • ADHD

  • Childhood depression

  • Children’s anxiety di...

  • Stress

  • Support

  • Quality of life

  • Family functioning

  • Parenting style

  • DISC

  • CBCL

  • FAD

DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6427.2005.00300.x
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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