A Systematic Review of Parent Management Training for Disruptive Behavior in Pre-School Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Background and Aim : Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a wide range of symptoms which can be divided into two main categories: impaired communication and social interaction; restricted and repetitive behaviors, interests or activities. Moreover, children with autism may demonstrate disruptive behavior that can slow down the progress of interventions. Parent Management Training (PMT) is a general class of interventions which targets disruptive behaviors an important role in reduction or prevention of these kind of behaviors in children.Methods : The purpose of this article is to review the PMT programs for disruptive behavior in pre-school children, gathering the characteristics of programs and evaluation of programs which have been reported to be influential for ASD. In this article in order to find related papers some regular search strategies has been used. For foreign papers PsycNet, Sciencedirect, Medline, PubMed, Scopus and Web of science were used and for the Iranian papers we used ISC, SID and irandoc.Results : After removing the repetitive articles, the title of the PMT programs were discovered. Amongst available articles, consist of 59 foreign and 4 Iranian programs. For each of this these programs various data was collected, such as program title, researcher’s name(s), target groups, publishing year, a brief explanation of the program, purpose and the effectiveness of the program. Amongst mentioned programs, only two programs had literature review or meta-analysis on ASD that only one of them has reported a suitable efficacy.Conclusion : There are few PMT programs in which the efficacy of them are confirmed about ASD. As a result, it is indispensable to consider more the effectiveness of the programs about this disorder.

Keywords:

Neurodevelopmental Disorder , Autism Spectrum Disorder , Disruptive Behavior , Parent Management Training