A graduate student in counseling psychology
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These findings suggest that parental and family factors are related to the probability of successful treatment outcome. Following from that, it seems reasonable to hypothesize that addressing parental psychopathology and family functioning in treatment would lead to greater treatment response rates. Theorists have argued that because children are incredibly reliant on their family environment, an improved model of treatment would be one that is premised on an interpersonal conceptualization of youth anxiety and that aims to employ interventions at the social (e.g., familial) rather than individual levels (Barrett, 2000). Furthermore, including parents in the treatment of externalizing disorders in childhood (e.g., oppositional, aggressive, and antisocial behavior) has been documented as beneficial to treatment success (Kazdin, 1997; Patterson, Chamberlain, & Reid, 1982; Woolfenden, Williams, & Peat, 2002).