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Principal Investigators: Patti Chamberlain and Joe
Price
Funding: NIMH (6/00-5/05, $1,536,437 subcontract)
Test the effectiveness of an intervention intended to increase
support and consultation (specific Parent Management Training
- PMT) to foster parents for addressing the behavioral problems
of children at high risk for psychological problems. A major
aim of the study is to test the transferability of the proposed
intervention from Oregon to the San Diego foster care system
in California which has six regions in which the intervention
will be successively implemented within two cohorts of three
regions each. A cascading dissemination model is proposed
where, with each iteration of the implementation, the involvement
of the original developers will lessen. PMT has been shown
to produce positive outcomes in numerous clinical trials with
diverse populations of youngsters from preschoolers to adolescents.
In addition, in a previous efficacy trial, PMT had positive
effects with foster parents in three areas: 1) reduction of
child symptoms, 2) lower rates of disruptions in foster care
(changes in placement for negative reasons), and 3) fewer
foster parents in the PMT condition dropped out of providing
foster care. Outcomes will be evaluated at five levels (child
symptoms, functional behavior, environments, consumer perspectives,
and system) using a multi-method/multi-agent strategy.
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2007
CASRC