Conduct or Oppositional Defiant Disorder in Girls: A Cognitive Behavioural Skills Training

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.26601
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Christina Stadler discuss her co-authored JCPP paper ‘START NOW: a cognitive behavioral skills training for adolescent girls with conduct or oppositional defiant disorder – a randomized clinical trial’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13896).
There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Discussion points include:

• Why the researchers decided to undertake the intervention (START NOW) in youth welfare institutions.
• Insight into START NOW, a cognitive-behavioural, dialectical behaviour therapy-oriented skills training program.
• The methodological challenges in undertaking this randomized control trial.
• Implications for practitioners, and messages for parents and carers.
• Potential areas of further investigation with regards to the START NOW intervention.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.