Parenting With Love and Limits

An Evidence-Based Practice

Description

Parenting with Love and Limits® (PLL) integrates group and family therapy into one system of care for adolescent populations with the primary diagnosis of oppositional defiant or conduct disorder. Parents and teens learn specific skills in group therapy and then meet in individual family therapy to role-play and practice these new skills. This integration of group and family therapy enables parents to transfer these new skills to real-life situations and prevent relapse. The Parenting with Love and Limits® system of care is comprised of 6 group sessions plus 3 or more family therapy sessions.

Goal / Mission

The goal of the Parenting with Love and Limits® (PLL) program is to improve behavioral problems in children by providing therapy and training to parents in order to restore a level of competent, effective parenting and create greater family connectedness.

Impact

Youth in the PLL group had significantly greater reductions in conduct disorder problem behaviors compared with youth in the control group. Specifically, they had greater improvements in anxiety/depression, withdrawn/depression, social problems, attention problems, rule-breaking problems, aggressive behaviors, internalizing problems, and externalizing problems.

Results / Accomplishments

Youth in the PLL group had significantly greater reductions in conduct disorder problem behaviors (p < 0.01) compared with youth in the control group. Specifically, they had greater improvements in anxiety/depression (p < 0.01), withdrawn/depression (p < 0.01), social problems (p < 0.05), attention problems (p < 0.01), rule-breaking problems (p < 0.01), aggressive behaviors (p < 0.01), internalizing problems (p < 0.01), and externalizing problems (p < 0.01).

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Savannah Family Institute, Inc.
Primary Contact
Scott P. Sells, PhD, LMFT, LCSW
Savannah Family Institute, Inc.
P. O. Box 30381
Savannah, GA 31410-0381
(800) 735-9525
spsells@gopll.com
http://www.gopll.com/
Topics
Community / Social Environment
Community / Crime & Crime Prevention
Organization(s)
Savannah Family Institute, Inc.
Source
SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)
Date of publication
2006
Location
Savannah, GA
For more details
https://www.gopll.com/
http://legacy.nreppadmin.net/ViewIntervention.aspx...
Target Audience
Families

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An Evidence-Based Practice meets the following HCI criteria:

  1. The program description includes at a minimum: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program implementation steps, and outcomes that have demonstrated program success in achieving the program goal in one or more localities.
  2. The results from an evaluation of the program include quantitative measures showing improvement in the outcome(s) of interest after the implementation of the program (i.e. increase in smoking cessation, not just the delivery of a smoking cessation program). The outcome measure(s) is/are compared at relevant time periods before and after the intervention or program implementation. Alternatively, the evaluation study compares the outcome(s) between an intervention group and an appropriate control group.
  3. The study is of peer-review quality and presents numbers in a scientific manner; measurements of precision and reliability are included (e.g. confidence intervals, standard errors), results from statistical tests show a significant difference or change in the outcome measure(s), and relevant point estimates and p-values are presented. Note: if the results from an evaluation of a program are presented in a scientific manner and the outcome measure is improved compared to the baseline measurement or the control group but the difference is not statistically significant, the practice is classified as effective and not evidence-based.