The other form of effective psychosocial intervention facilitates proper child-rearing practices. This involves teaching parents to reduce stress in the home, use supportive rather than harsh limit-setting practices, monitor the child’s activities, and obtain services as needed. Most research on these two types of intervention shows that children with callous–unemotional traits have a less robust response than children without such traits,68,69 possibly because the interventions fail to target relevant mechanisms in the former group.
