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Katzmann, Josepha, Goertz-Dorten, Anja, Hautmann, Christopher and Doepfner, Manfred (2019). Social skills training and play group intervention for children with oppositional-defiant disorders/conduct disorder: Mediating mechanisms in a head-to-head comparison. Psychother. Res., 29 (6). S. 784 - 799. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1468-4381

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Abstract

Objective: Social-cognitive information processing, social skills, and social interactions are problem-maintaining variables for aggressive behavior in children. We hypothesized that these factors may be possible mediators of the mechanism of change in the child-centered treatment of conduct disorders (CDs). The aim of the present study (Clinical trials.gov Identifier: NCT01406067) was to examine putative mechanisms of change for the decrease in oppositional-defiant behavior resulting from child-centered treatment of patients with oppositional-defiant disorder (ODD) or CD. Method: 91 children (age 6-12 years) with ODD/CD were randomized to receive either social skills training or to a resource activating play group. Mediator analyses were conducted using path analyses. Results: The assumed mediating effects were not significant. However, alternative models with the putative mediators and outcome in reversed positions showed significant indirect effects of the oppositional-defiant symptoms as mediator for the decrease of disturbance of social-information processing, social skills, and social interactions. Conclusions: The proposed model for mechanisms of change could not be confirmed, with the results pointing to a reversed causality. Variables other than those hypothesized must be responsible for mediating the effects of the intervention on child oppositional-defiant behavior. Possible mechanisms of change were discussed.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Katzmann, Josepha UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Goertz-Dorten, Anja UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Hautmann, Christopher UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Doepfner, Manfred UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-133567
DOI:	10.1080/10503307.2018.1425559
Journal or Publication Title:	Psychother. Res.
Volume:	29
Number:	6
Page Range:	S. 784 - 799
Date:	2019
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	1468-4381
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIAL; CONDUCT PROBLEMS; PREVENTIVE INTERVENTION; DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAYS; OUTCOMES; BEHAVIOR; PARENT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; AGGRESSION; MODERATORS Multiple languages Psychology, Clinical Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/13356