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Research on PCIT

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Establishing an evidence-based treatment often involves single-subject studies, program evaluations, and randomized controlled trials. However, after research demonstrates the efficacy of a particular treatment through these methods, there are many additional areas to investigate before the intervention is disseminated and widely employed. PCIT, like other evidence-based interventions, has been developed in a similar way, beginning with early research demonstrating changes in disruptive behavior at post-treatment in comparison to waitlist children (e.g., McNeil, Capage, Bahl, & Blanc, 1999; Schuhmann, Foote, Eyberg, Boggs, & Algina, 1998).

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McNeil, C.B., Hembree-Kigin, T.L. (2010). Research on PCIT. In: Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88639-8_2

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