Parent Managament Training: Treatment for Oppositional, Aggressive, and Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents

This is a book on Parent Management Training, as applied to the treatment of children and adolescents with oppositional, aggressive, and antisocial behavior.

Currently in the mental health professions, there is keen interest in evidence-based treatments. Among the psychotherapies for children and adolescents, parent management training (PMT) is without peer. No other treatment for children has been as thoroughly investigated, and as widely applied as has PMT.

In this book, Dr. Alan Kazdin brings together the conceptual and empirical bases of this treatment, as applied to children and adolescents with oppositional, aggressive, and antisocial behavior. The book's first half provides the background, principles, and concepts underlying PMT, detailing the clinical application of treatment with concrete examples of how therapists should work with parents and children. Kazdin also highlights the wide body of research on PMT to demonstrate the empirical basis of this intervention, to convey what is understood about how PMT works, and to identify what can be done to enhance the effects of treatment. The book's second half is a treatment

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Kazdin, Alan E.

ISBN:

978-0-19-515429-0

Specialty:

• Psychiatry
• Psychology
• Child Development Psychology
• Psychotherapy

Language:

English

Edition:

1st

Pages:

424

Publication Year:

2005

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