6. Summary statement: development, evolution, and treatment
The role of parents in the development, evolution, and treatment of child disruptive behavior and anxiety is substantially different. We have summarized these differences in Fig. 1. The arguments we have advanced and the multiple reviews conducted in the literature (e.g., Chorpita et al., 2011; Dretzke et al., 2009) indicate that behavioral parent training is an efficacious intervention with child disruptive behavior problems. However, the state of the field is far less clear with child anxiety. We next attempt to provide some clarity to this issue. It should be noted that in order to do so, we use the term “behavioral parenting interventions;” however, consistent with Barnish and Kendall's (2005) concern about the diversity of procedures which have been grouped under this term, we delineate the specific parenting intervention procedures used in each study.