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Family Management Styles and ADHD: Utility and Treatment Implications
Kyle E. Conlon, BS*,
Carla G. Strassle, PhD,
Doc Vinh, BS,
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Garrett Trout, MBA
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kconlon2{at}gmail.com.
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A previous study identified four family management styles (FMSs) exhibited in families with children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and suggested that understanding how families deal with a childs ADHD would provide additional information from which to create effective interventions. The present study used the FMS typology with a sample of children and adolescents with ADHD with the aims of demonstrating that FMSs could be reliably identified in a different clinical sample and clarifying changes in FMS that occur with treatment. All four FMSs were reliably identified in the sample and more than half of the families (56.3%) improved to a higher functioning FMS with treatment. The findings suggest that FMSs can elicit important information about family functioning and may assist clinical understanding of the child–family interaction that in turn facilitates treatment.
First published on April 7, 2008, doi:10.1177/1074840708315673
Journal of Family Nursing 2008;14:181.
A more recent version of this article appeared on May 1, 2008

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