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The Child Life and Attention Skills Program (CLAS)

Principal Investigators: Stephen Hinshaw (UC Berkeley) and Linda Pfiffner (UC San Francisco)

The Child Life and Attention Skills Program (CLAS) is a treatment study for children (ages 7 to 11, in 2nd to 5th grade) with the Predominantly Inattentive type of ADHD (ADHD-I). The treatment, conducted at both Berkeley and UC San Francisco, is an integrated, psychosocial treatment that combines parenting skills training, teacher consultation, and child skills groups that target ADHD-I and associated impairments. Families who participate are randomly assigned to one of three groups: (1) CLAS treatment, (2) Parent training only, (3) community referrals (i.e., no treatment provided by study staff). The goal is to test whether CLAS provides superior reduction of inattention symptoms and positively affects multiple domains of impairment, such as academic performance, social functioning, and increased positive parenting. We also will be examining the durability of treatment gains at 5 to 7 months post treatment.

This program is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and there is no cost to families.

We are no longer recruiting for this study.

If you would like to obtain more information about the CLAS Program, please contact: