Improving Behavioral Health Care for Children With ADHD

Improving Behavioral Health Care for Children With ADHD: Integration of Family Peer Advocates to Deliver Behavioral Parent Training in Pediatric Care Settings

The purpose of this study is development of the Integrative Pediatric FPA ADHD Care (IPFAC) Model. The IPFAC is intended to increase access to evidence-based behavioral parent training (BPT) for school-age children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder(ADHD) who are diagnosed with ADHD and served in the ADHD Clinic at NYU Bellevue's Department of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.

The specific aims of this study are to: 1) Develop the IPFAC model (Phase I); 2) Assess and determine facilitators and barriers to fidelity, assess feasibility of data acquisition, determine preliminary efficacy, and refine the IPFAC model through a small-scale implementation study and Plan-Do-Study-Act methods (Phase II), and, 3) Evaluate the revised IPFAC model in a small-scale study using state-of-the-art single-case study design methods/analyses to test "treatment mechanisms" in a sample of newly diagnosed youth with ADHD (Phase III) and finalize the IPFAC procedural manual.

Inclusion Criteria:

• being a parent of a child who is a patient at the NYU Bellevue ADHD Clinic
• being an adult over the age of 18
• having a child who obtained a diagnosis of ADHD (any subtype) within the previous 3 months (ie.., newly diagnosed) through the NYU Bellevue ADHD Clinic
• parent must speak English and/or Spanish.

The second study participant is the child. Study inclusion criteria for children include:

• child is a patient at the NYU Bellevue ADHD Clinic
• child is between the age of 6-11
• participating child must have obtained a diagnosis of ADHD (any subtype) within the previous 3 months (i.e., newly diagnosed) through the NYU Bellevue ADHD Clinic,
• child must speak English and/or Spanish.

Exclusion Criteria:

• parent presenting with severe mental health illness (e.g., schizophrenia; bipolar disorder) that would warrant immediate services.
• child with primary diagnosis/presenting issues of severe mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia; bipolar disorder) that would warrant primary services other than what is offered through the project.