Parent Management Training to Treat Irritability

Description

The goal of this clinical trial is to see if 12 sessions of a Parent Management Training program can treat irritability in children aged 10-14 years old. The main question it aims to answer are: * Can a Parent Management Training for parents reduce anger outbursts and cranky moods in their children? * Can Parent Management Training be done in an outpatient clinic and do parents like it? Up to 18 families can join this study. This study will be used to set up a larger study in the Fall of 2025. Parent participants will complete 12 sessions of Parent Management Training for Irritability. Each session will be 45-55 minutes weekly. They will also participate in the assessments of their child before, during and after treatment. Child participants will do assessments before, during and after the Parent Management Training treatment.

Conditions

Irritable Mood, Temper Tantrum, Anger

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Study overview

The goal of this clinical trial is to see if 12 sessions of a Parent Management Training program can treat irritability in children aged 10-14 years old. The main question it aims to answer are: * Can a Parent Management Training for parents reduce anger outbursts and cranky moods in their children? * Can Parent Management Training be done in an outpatient clinic and do parents like it? Up to 18 families can join this study. This study will be used to set up a larger study in the Fall of 2025. Parent participants will complete 12 sessions of Parent Management Training for Irritability. Each session will be 45-55 minutes weekly. They will also participate in the assessments of their child before, during and after treatment. Child participants will do assessments before, during and after the Parent Management Training treatment.

The Efficacy of Parent Management Training to Treat Irritability

Parent Management Training to Treat Irritability

Condition
Irritable Mood
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Aurora

Childrens Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * clinically significant irritability (Clinician Affective Reactivity Index 30 or greater)
  • * parent or guardian willing to participate in treatment with the child
  • * psychiatric instability (danger to self/others, risky substance abuse)
  • * current active PTSD or a severe active stressor (e.g. child abuse)
  • * history of severe psychopathology with an established alternate treatment (e.g. autism spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, intellectual disability)
  • * general medical condition that may be driving irritability or prevent generalizable physiologic measures.
  • * screen positive for an intellectual disability via WASI II estimated IQ\<70.

Ages Eligible for Study

10 Years to 14 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Colorado, Denver,

Joel Stoddard, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus

Joel Stoddard, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz

Study Record Dates

2025-12-30