Responding to Children and Adolescents With Tyrannical Behaviour

Non-Violent Resistance Parental Training Versus Treatment as Usual for Children and Adolescents With Severe Tyrannical Behaviour: a Randomized Controlled Trial

This was a randomized controlled trial that compared the NVR intervention group with a TAU group during a four-months period in reducing stress in parents of children aged 6-20 years and displaying severe tyrannical behaviour (STB).

Inclusion criteria:

1. being the parent of a child aged 6 - 20 years who endorses the DSM-5 criteria of IODD. In fact, ODD is considered a necessary but not a sufficient condition for tyranny behavior

2. two or more positive answers to the custom quetions routinely used to identify STB in children/adolescents at the University Hospital of Montpellier), related to a 12 month period :

   • Are you afraid of your child?
   • Is your child physically or psychologically violent toward you?
   • Do you think that your child is the decision maker in the family?
   • Do you feel ashamed by your situation at home?

3. being able to attend half of the sessions.

Exclusion criteria:

1. predicted absence from at least half of the sessions
2. subject deprived of liberty
3. subject under guardianship or curatorship.