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| Thomas PowerSummaryAffiliation: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Country: USA Publications
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A family-school intervention for children with ADHD: results of a randomized clinical trialThomas J Power
Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 80:611-23. 2012..Key components of FSS were conjoint behavioral consultation, daily report cards, and behavioral homework interventions...
Preparing psychologists to link systems of care in managing and preventing children's health problemsThomas J Power
Department of Psychology, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania, 19104, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 28:147-55. 2003..To describe the need for innovations in training to link health, educational, and family systems and to illustrate how this can be accomplished through child-oriented psychology training programs...
Managing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in primary care: a systematic analysis of roles and challengesThomas J Power
The Center for Management of ADHD, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Pediatrics 121:e65-72. 2008....- School-based interventions for students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderThomas J Power
The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, CHOP North, Room 1471, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Curr Psychiatry Rep 11:407-14. 2009..Also, most of the research has focused on elementary school-age children, but evidence-based strategies for intervening with preschoolers and adolescents are beginning to emerge... - Determining readiness for predoctoral internship training: the process of developing a screening measureThomas J Power
The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Clin Psychol 67:6-16. 2011..Correlations between raters at the factor and item level generally were in the moderate range. This study illustrates the process of developing a screening measure to help determine readiness for internship training... - Variations in anxiety and depression as a function of ADHD subtypes defined by DSM-IV: do subtype differences exist or not?Thomas J Power
Department of Psychology CSH 116, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 3405 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 32:27-37. 2004..The results were discussed with regard to their implications for refining the criteria used to differentiate children with ADHD into subtypes... - Behavioral health screening in urban primary care settings: construct validity of the PSC-17Anna Kostanecka
Department of Pediatrics, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 29:124-8. 2008..Clinicians using the PSC-17 in urban low-income communities should recognize that the externalizing and attention problems subscales of the PSC-17 may not be valid measures of these dimensions of child behavior in this population... - An initial evaluation of a culturally adapted social problem-solving and relational aggression prevention program for urban African-American relationally aggressive girlsStephen S Leff
The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
J Prev Interv Community 37:260-74. 2009..Further, the intervention appears to have promise for decreasing at-risk girls' levels of relationally and physically aggressive behaviors, hostile attributions, and loneliness... - Social cognition in context: validating a cartoon-based attributional measure for urban girlsStephen S Leff
The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Child Dev 77:1351-8. 2006..This paper illustrates how a partnership-based research model can be used to design measurement tools sensitive to the ways in which developmental processes are influenced by an urban, low-income, ecological context... - Identifying learning problems in children evaluated for ADHD: the Academic Performance QuestionnaireAmanda E Bennett
Division of Child Development, Rehabilitation, and Metabolic Disease, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Pediatrics 124:e633-9. 2009..The objective of this study was to assess the usefulness of the Academic Performance Questionnaire (APQ) to identify low reading and math achievement in children who are being evaluated for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)... - Development of an instrument to measure parents' preferences and goals for the treatment of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorderAlexander G Fiks
Pediatric Research Consortium, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Acad Pediatr 12:445-55. 2012..To describe the development and validation of an instrument to measure parents' attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) treatment preferences and goals... - Parental ADHD status and its association with proband ADHD subtype and severityToshinobu Takeda
Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Pediatr 157:995-1000.e1. 2010..To better understand the familial transmission of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a highly heritable disorder, the effects of paternal and maternal ADHD status on probands' ADHD symptoms and subtypes were investigated... - Fragmented care for inner-city minority children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderJames P Guevara
Pediatric Generalist Research Group, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Pediatrics 116:e512-7. 2005..To identify systematic problems in coordinating care for inner-city minority youths with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder... - Quality improvement activities and expanded school mental health servicesLaura A Nabors
Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, USA
Behav Modif 28:596-616. 2004..The article concludes with a discussion of the importance of QI in school-based mental health and reviews directions for future research and program development... - Service Utilization among ethnic minority children with ADHD: a model of help-seeking behaviorRicardo B Eiraldi
Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Adm Policy Ment Health 33:607-22. 2006.... - The role of treatment acceptability in the initiation of treatment for ADHDAmy L Krain
New York University Child Study Center, 215 Lexington Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10016, USA
J Atten Disord 9:425-34. 2005..Furthermore, Caucasian families were more likely to pursue a recommendation for pharmacological treatment than non-Caucasian families. The clinical and research implications of these results are considered... - Improving school outcomes for students with ADHD: using the right strategies in the context of the right relationshipsGeorge DuPaul
J Atten Disord 11:519-21. 2008
Research Grants
- Evaluation of a Family-School Intervention for ADHDThomas Power; Fiscal Year: 2007..Moderator and mediator effects will be evaluated using criteria outlined by Baron and Kenny. Mixed effects models will also be used to estimate the degree of treatment effect at the level of the individual child and family. ..
- Development of a Family-School Intervention for Young Children with ADHDThomas Power; Fiscal Year: 2007..This proposed project targets young children when they begin their formal education (kindergarten and grade 1) to promote family and school success through effective inter-systemic partnerships. ..
- Evaluation of a Family-School Intervention for ADHDThomas Power; Fiscal Year: 2009..Moderator and mediator effects will be evaluated using criteria outlined by Baron and Kenny. Mixed effects models will also be used to estimate the degree of treatment effect at the level of the individual child and family. ..