Effectiveness of Anger Management and Parenting Training on Inhibiting the Response of Students with Oppositional Defiant Disorder

The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of anger management and parenting training on response inhibition in students with Oppositional/Confrontational Defiant Disorder (ODD/FDD).

This research was a quasiexperimental study of pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The statistical population included all male students with ODD/FDD in Tehran in 2020. Overall 45 people were selected as a sample according to the entry and exit criteria through voluntary and available sampling and assigned into two experimental groups and one control group. The instruments used in the present study included a grading scale for ODD/FDD in children and to inhibit the response of the Stroop word color test.

Anger management and parenting training showed more effectiveness on response inhibition in the case comparing to the control group (P <0.5). Also anger management training group parenting training group had the same effect on the response inhibition of students with ODD/FDD (P<0.5).

Therefore, education of anger management and parenting training as two interventional programs can be effective in inhibiting the response of students with ODD/FDD.