NCT01965184

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Disruptive Behavior in Children and Adolescents

Using CBT to Examine Circuitry of Frustrative Non-reward in Aggressive Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 101 (actual)
• Sponsor: Yale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a randomized controlled study of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for disruptive behavior such as irritability, anger and aggression in children and adolescents. CBT will be compared to Supportive Psychotherapy (SPT) and participants of this study will be randomly assigned (like the flip of a coin) to receive CBT or SPT. Participants will be also asked to complete functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electrophysiological (EEG) tasks (recordings/images of brain activity) before and after treatment.

Detailed description

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a behavioral intervention that consists of 12 weekly sessions. During CBT children are taught various skills for coping with frustration and parents are taught various strategies for managing situations that can be anger provoking for their child. This study is conducted to examine whether reduction of behavioral problems including anger outbursts, irritability, aggression and noncompliance after CBT may be paralleled by changes in areas of the brain responsible for emotion regulation and social perception.

Conditions

• Disruptive Behavior
• Aggression
• Anger
• Irritability
• Noncompliance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Anger and Aggression
BEHAVIORAL	Supportive Psychotherapy (SPT)

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-11-14
• Primary completion: 2018-08-03
• Completion: 2018-11-03
• First posted: 2013-10-18
• Last updated: 2023-11-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States