THE BEHAVIOURAL PARENTING INTERVENTIONS (BPT) FOR SUPPORT AND MANDATORY INTEGRATIVE THERAPY FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS AFFECTED BY DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOURAL DISORDERS: A BRIEF REVIEW

BEATRICE GALLAI^1*, VITTORIA VALENTINI^1*, FRANCESCA BARBANERA^1*, ROSA MAROTTA², FRANCESCO LAVANO², SERENA MARIANNA LAVANO³, AGATA MALTESE⁴, GABRIELE TRIPI^5,6, PALMIRA ROMANO⁷, MARGHERITA SALERNO⁸, ANNABELLA DI FOLCO⁸

¹Department of Surgical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy - ²Department of Medical and Surgery Sciences, University “Magna Graecia”, Catanzaro, Italy - ³Department of Health Sciences, University “Magna Graecia”, Catanzaro, Italy - ⁴Department of Psychological, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, University of Palermo, Italy - ⁵Department PROSAMI, University of Palermo, Italy - ⁶Childhood Psychiatric Service for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, CH Chinon, France - ⁷Clinic of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Department of Mental Health and Physical and Preventive Medicine; Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy - ⁸Sciences for Mother and Child Health Promotion, University of Palermo, Italy

The behavioral parenting interventions (BPT), commonly abbreviated as parent training, is a program conducted by an expert with the specific purpose of improving or modifying parental practices in order to promote the child's well-being, increasing paren- ting skills in the daily management of the child , problem solving and reducing the level of parenting and family stress.

BPT presents many positive effects on children or adolescents affected by neurodevelopmental disorder such as ADHD, autism and cognitive dysfunction but BPT appears to improve also other proximal outcomes such as parenting competence and parenting stress