The study focused on 37 adoptive parents of three- to eight-year-olds who had serious behavioural problems.
Parents who received 10 weekly sessions of home-based parenting advice delivered by family social workers showed significantly reduced negative parenting approaches to misbehaviour, compared to a control group.
But the intervention did not reduce the level of the children's problems.
The researchers, from King's College London, the University of London and the Thomas Coram Research Unit, attributed the lack of change in the children to their "extremely adverse" pre-adoption histories and said a small sample size meant the trial should be followed up with further research.
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