Randomized trial of parent–child interaction therapy improves child-welfare parents’ behavior, self-regulation, and self-perceptions.

Abstract

This randomized trial presents the first evidence that PCIT improves inhibitory control and emotion regulation in a child welfare parents and replicates other published trials documenting intervention gains in positive parenting and child behavior in child welfare families. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).