Comparison of Two Psychosocial Therapies for Treating Children With Oppositional-Defiant Disorder

PMT primarily involves teaching parents strategies to respond consistently and correctly to their child's behavior. Parents assigned to the PMT group will be taught how to respond consistently and appropriately to their child's positive and negative behaviors. Participants will attend a 1-hour treatment session each week for 10 weeks.

CPS is a treatment approach that involves both the parent and child by teaching parents to help their child control their emotions and to problem solve as a family. Parents assigned to the CPS group will be taught strategies to help their child identify and regulate emotions and to solve behavior problems together as a family. Participants will attend a 1-hour treatment session each week for 10 weeks.

Participants assigned to the waitlist control condition group will wait 10 weeks before beginning treatment one of the two treatment options.