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Chinese families of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience disruptive family dynamics and dysfunctional family interactions due to their struggle to reconcile school expectations, social and cultural norms. With an emphasis on academic excellence, parents have higher parental rejection and become avoidant, leading to high conflicts in parent–child relationships. Mainstream interventions in Hong Kong tend to be trait- or outcome-focused, thus failing to address their interpersonal needs. Multiple family narrative therapy (MFNT) is a family-oriented approach that integrates multiple family therapy and narrative therapy to facilitate intra- and inter-familial transformation for enhancing family resilience. This study explored the effectiveness of MFNT among Chinese parents of children with ADHD. Sixty-one parents participated in a 4-week MFNT program, and their family resilience, parental rejection, and parent–child relationships were measured at pre-, post-, and 3-month follow-up. Participants showed significant increases in family resilience (p = .023) and parent–child relationships (p = .001), and a significant reduction was observed in parental rejection (p = .003). The effect lasted at 3-month follow-up. MFNT enhanced family resilience in three aspects: Family belief systems for finding alternatives to adversity, family communication processes for healing from rejection, and family organization processes for reuniting parents and children.
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