Parenting interventions
Behavioural parenting interventions are recommended as
first line treatment options for the treatment of ADHD in
childhood (NICE 2008). Recommended interventions are
based on social learning principles and include strategies for
parents aimed at increasing the frequency of adaptive child
behaviours while reducing the occurrence of non-compliant
or disruptive behaviour. Their efficacy as treatments for ADHD
symptoms has been previously supported by meta-analyses
(Fabiano et al. 2009). However, concern has been raised as to
whether recommended parenting interventions are sufficiently
targeting ADHD symptoms, following evidence that effect sizes
for behavioural interventions (including parenting interventions)
drop to near zero when analysing data from informants
who are probably blind to treatment allocation (Sonuga-Barke
et al. 2013).