Parent Training
Parent Training (PT) has been shown to be effective for treating oppositional and
defiant behaviors. Standardized parent training programs are short-term interventions that
teach parents specialized strategies-including positive attending, ignoring, the effective
use of rewards and punishments, token economies, and time-out to address clinically
significant behavior problems. (Farley et al., 2005)
The long-term maintenance of changes following parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT)
for young children with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and associated ADHD has
been shown to be good. Three to 6 years after treatment, the mothers of children with
these disorders indicated that the significant changes found in their children’s behavior
and their own feelings of control at the end of treatment were maintained at long-term
follow-up. Child behavior reported at the post-treatment assessment and the length of
time since treatment were strong predictors of long-term outcome. Mothers’ reports of
disruptive behavior decreased with time after treatment. (Hood & Eyberg, 2003)
[Editor’s Note: The author is discussing parent training as an effective treatement for children’s ADHD and ODD as found in The Total Transformation Program.]
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