Current Grants Project Gift
Project GIFT stands for Growing
into the Future Together. Project GIFT is a 5-year project that examines
the effectiveness of a new model of treatment designed to improve long-term
maintenance of gains achieved during a standard treatment, Parent-Child
Interaction Therapy. Project GIFT is based on the view that the current
model of treatment for young children may be limited in long-term effectiveness
given the persistent nature of child behavior problems. The current model
of treatment is typically short in duration and treatment is ended immediately
upon remission of the child's problems. Project GIFT is studying the maintenance
treatment model which is based on the assumption that early conduct-disordered
behavior is a recurrent condition requiring continued monitoring "check-ups"
and treatment-as-needed boosters throughout childhood to maintain treatment
gains.
Lab Research
The Specific Aims of Project Gift Are:
1) To determine the relative
efficacy of PCIT Maintenance Treatment for children with Oppositional
Defiant Disorder
2) To identify the determinants of
treatment response to the standard PCIT model and to the maintenance
treatment model.
Click here for more information: Project Gift Maintenance Study
Project GIFT was developed by Drs. Sheila M. Eyberg and Stephen R. Boggs in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of Florida and is funded by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health RO1MH60632-01.