Defiant Children

Book Description

A Clinician’s Manual for Assessment and Parent Training

This remarkably clear and effective manual includes a thorough clinical guide to Dr. Barkley’s 10-session parent training program, an assessment section that incorporates DSM-IV diagnostic criteria, and reproducible materials reinforcing each step of the program.

Practitioners learn proven techniques for helping parents to:

• Understand their child’s misbehaviour
• Motivate their child and increase compliance
• Decrease disruptive behaviour
• Establish proper disciplinary systems without corporal punishment
• Improve school behaviour with a new home-based reward system.

Designed in a convenient format with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying, the manual includes all needed assessment forms and parent and teacher handouts. Purchasers can photocopy the materials they need as often as they need without additional c