Comparison of the Effects of Parenting Behavioral Management Training (Based on Functional Behavior Assessment Approach), Neurofeedback and Drug Therapy on Attention, and Focus, Behavioral Problems, and Social-Emotional Adjustment in Children with Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder

Omidinejad, Mahboobeh; Salibi, Jacenthe; Namvar, Hooman

doi:10.22038/mjms.2021.18522

Comparison of the Effects of Parenting Behavioral Management Training (Based on Functional Behavior Assessment Approach), Neurofeedback and Drug Therapy on Attention, and Focus, Behavioral Problems, and Social-Emotional Adjustment in Children with Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Mahboobeh Omidinejad ¹

Jacenthe salibi ²

Hooman namvar ³

¹ PhD educational Psychology, college of human science, Saveh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saveh, Iran

² Associate professor department of educational psychology Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran (Corresponding Author (

³ assistant professor department of health psychology, college of human science, Saveh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saveh, Iran

10.22038/mjms.2021.18522

Abstract

Introduction: Children have certain stages of development throughout their lives. Some children, for various reasons, are unable to successfully pass these stages and meet their expectations and developmental tasks in a natural way that results in social, emotional, The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of parental behavioral management training interventions (FBA), neurofeedback, and drug therapy on attention and concentration, behavioral problems, and emotional-social adjustment in children with attention deficit / hyperactivitywas disorder.
Methods: The study was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test with control group. A sample of 80 individuals was randomly assigned into two experimental and control groups by purposeful and voluntary random sampling. For these subjects, the Parent Behavioral Management Training Package, Roswell et al. (1956) Continuous Performance Test, Sinn and Singh's (1993) Student Adaptation and Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist were completed in the pre-test and post-test stages. In this study, descriptive and inferential statistics calculations of multivariate analysis of covariance were analyzed using the twenty-second version of SPSS software version 12.
Results: The results showed that the efficacy of the intervention approach was more than the parent and neurofeedback behavioral management training in reducing the problems of overactive children in the three areas under study, respectively. (001/0> P)
Conclusion: Behavioral management training of parents, neurofeedback and drug therapy had a significant effect on enhancing the experimental group's improvement.

Keywords

Parent Behavioral Management Training

Functional Behavior Assessment Approach

Neurofeedback

Drug Therapy

Attention and Focus

Social Emotion Adaptation

Child Behavioral Problems