This study aims to contribute with the evaluation of the effects of behavioral intervention addressed to parents/guardians of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder – ADHD, investigating the effects of this model on parental training under two conditions, therapeutic setting (Condition 1) and home environment (Condition 2), on the occurrence of hyperactivity behavior versus self-control. The participants were the parents of four children, between five and nine years of age. The following instruments were used: Free Informed Term of Consent - FITC, Parental Style Inventory – PSI, Child Behavior Checklist – Teachers Report Form CBCL/ TRF, teacher’s version of the ADHD rating scale, Initial Interview Guideline, Interview and Evaluation Guideline, Final Evaluation Guideline, Brazilian Economic Rating Criteria-BERC. The research process consisted in: (a) contacting a pediatric neurologist; (b) participants’ triage and invitation; (c) distribution of two participants for each condition of intervention; (d) initial evaluation, including interview with the guardians, application of FTIC, PSI and CBCL; (e) visit to school and application of FTIC, ADHD rating scale and teacher’s versions of TRF; (f) five intervention sessions, taped in audio and video, two baselines, one habituation to rules and two maintenance in behavior and installation of self-observation behavior, which involved situations of interaction in games with rules, with participation of therapist- researcher, the child’s mother, (g) an evaluation interview on the first phase; (h) reversion of context for the participants and (i) final evaluation, done through interviews with the guardians and a repetition of the previously used standard instruments with the parents and teachers, plus the BERC. The data obtained through such standardized instruments received treatment indicated in the manuals. Two systems of categories for behavior analysis were used, one to describe the mothers’ behavior and the other, the children’s behavior. The main results suggest that children in the consulting room environment had a greater occurrence of behavior emission of self-control than in the home environment, which, on the other hand, had prevalence of hyperactivity-impulsivity behavior. Likewise, mothers in the consulting room environment scored better than those in the home environment group. There was an increase in educative practices for most mothers. One discusses the consulting room context as an effective intervention environment, although it is recognized that the difficulties of control of inadequate behavior are greater for parents in the home environment, as a result, intervention in a natural environment must be considered during the therapeutic process. On the other hand, parental training has demonstrated to be effective in the acquisition, enhancement and maintenance of positive educative practices for all mothers, which may influence beneficially the behavior of children with ADHD.
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