| Title: |
Using a Novel Emotional Skills Module to Enhance Empathic Responding for a Child With Conduct Disorder With Limited Prosocial Emotions |
| Authors: |
Datyner, Amy; Kimonis, Eva R.; Hunt, Elizabeth; Armstrong, Kathleen |
| Source: |
Clinical Case Studies ; volume 15, issue 1, page 35-52 ; ISSN 1534-6501 1552-3802 |
| Publisher Information: |
SAGE Publications |
| Publication Year: |
2015 |
| Description: |
Children with conduct problems benefit less from empirically supported interventions for disruptive behaviors when callous-unemotional (CU) traits (i.e., lack of empathy/guilt) are also present. Traditional “gold-standard” interventions for disruptive behavior disorders that focus primarily on improving parenting skills fail to address the core deficits in emotional processing and empathic responding unique to children with co-occurring conduct problems and CU traits (CP + CU). This case study presents a follow-up of the treatment of a young boy with severe disruptive behavior and pronounced CU traits using a novel, brief adjunctive treatment called Coaching and Rewarding Emotional Skills (CARES). Findings (a) indicate short-term improvements in empathic responding and emotion recognition with CARES and (b) provide preliminary support for supplementing parent training with a brief adjunctive intervention to improve socio-emotional behavior and CU traits. Novel targeted interventions for children with CP + CU are critically needed given their poor prognosis and long-term impairment. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1177/1534650115588978 |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.1177/1534650115588978; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1534650115588978; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1534650115588978 |
| Rights: |
https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.1166053A |
| Database: |
BASE |