Handbook of Parent Training

Download or read book Handbook of Parent Training written by Charles E. Schaefer and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1989-09-07 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Parent Training is a practical, comprehensive guide for professionals who work with troubled children and their parents. The text uses an innovative approach, drawing upon elements of behavior modification and relationship enhancement with the aim of training parents to be co-therapists. It examines all the skills necessary to make parents agents of positive change in their children's lives, such as didactic instructions, training models, and role playing. Various child disorders are examined and discussed, as well as practical methods of establishing a successful parent-therapist partnership.