Mindfulness-based Program for Children With Disruptive Behavior Disorder

The present RCT study investigates whether combined mindfulness program for children and their parents was beneficial for Italian children, aged 8‐12, with disruptive behavior diagnosis (DBD). The study tests the program effects on children's behavioral difficulties in school and home contexts; children's and parents' mindfulness abilities; children's impulsiveness; and parents' stress. The study include a sample of 60 children randomly allocate to the intervention or to the control condition (wait‐list control sample). Repeated measures of children's and parents' and teachers' reported measures will be used.