PPC - Personalised Programmes for Children

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Personalised Assessment and Intervention Packages for Children with Conduct Problems in Child Mental Health Services

• IRAS ID

  194962

• Contact name

  Rob Senior

• Contact email

  rsenior@tavi-port.nhs.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Noclor

• Duration of Study in the UK

  3 years, 0 months, 1 days

• Research summary

  About half of pre-school children who regularly hit other children or disobey rules will have long-term problems. Current NHS-funded parent training groups are helpful for some, but many children still have behaviour problems after their parents complete training. This project will work with parents to develop personalised packages tailored to parents' and children's needs and find whether this works better than current parent training.
  Phases 1-3 of this project will focus on developing this personalised package, while Phases 4-6 will test this new approach; a separate ethics application will be completed for Phases 4-6. The Phases included in this application are:
  Phase 1: Understanding different outcomes
  Phase 2: Understanding parents’ experiences
  Phase 3: Developing personalised packages

  We will initially assess key features of 160 parents and children (e.g., emotional responsiveness, depression, etc.) and follow their journey through parent training groups (Phase 1). Subgroups of these parents will be identified for interviewing, to investigate parents’ experience of the training and their views on their own and their child’s characteristics (Phase 2). The research team, leading researchers and practitioners in child behaviour problems and parenting, will collaborate with a small parent group of ‘experts-by-experience’ using that information to assess the likely success or failure of the group approach and produce a new ‘personalised’ treatment (Phase 3).

  The personalised package will focus on individual needs, drawing on research evidence and parent’s wishes, and will potentially include individual parenting work, support with parental distress, individual work with the child, collaborative work with both parents and child, and practical assistance (e.g., help with transport, finances, etc.). A treatment manual will be developed and NHS therapists will be trained in this new approach, with a view to improve parents’ wellbeing and children’s lives, including vulnerable children’s chances of making a productive, satisfying contribution to society.

• REC name

  London - Hampstead Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  16/LO/0806

• Date of REC Opinion

  1 Jul 2016

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion