Deliberate practice in behavioral parent training / Mark D. Terjesen, Hilary B. Vidair, Phyllis S. Ohr, Olivia A. Walsh, Tony Rousmaniere, Alexandre Vaz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Terjesen, Mark D. (Mark David), author.

Vidair, Hilary B., author.

Ohr, Phyllis S., author.

Walsh, Olivia A., author.

Rousmaniere, Tony, author.

Vaz, Alexandre, author.

Series:

Essentials of deliberate practice series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parenting--Study and teaching.

Parenting.

Behavior therapy.

Parent-Child Relations.

Medical Subjects:

Parent-Child Relations.

Parenting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 241 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington : American Psychological Association, 2025.

Summary:

"This book in the series is on behavioral parent training (BPT), an evidence-based approach that works on changing child externalizing and internalizing behaviors by teaching and reinforcing specific adaptive parenting strategies to promote and maintain behavioral change. The targets of BPT are child symptom resolution, improved parent-child interpersonal functioning, and improved parent functioning. BPT is a unique therapeutic approach in that the parents are the agent of change, and many trainees find that to achieve competence in delivery of BPT, they have to consider child and parenting behavior and work on creating a new paradigm of learning. Integrating readings on child behavior and BPT theory with practicing BPT skills and receiving constructive feedback facilitates learning. Lastly, understanding the mechanism of change within BPT and clinical moderators that may interfere with parents learning and competently applying these skills is essential. Practicing BPT skills with ongoing feedback will allow the clinician to calibrate their BPT practice and ultimately help them integrate their knowledge and skills into deeper BPT clinical practice. This book adopts deliberate practice methods to support experiential, "learning by doing" training opportunities. The described methods and stimuli facilitate practicing a range of important BPT skills that are present throughout many of the established BPT programs. In addition, by presenting diverse clinical scenarios that vary based on presenting problem, child age, parenting history, and parent emotional responsiveness, the exercises support the fine-tuning of the "how" of intervention delivery. Importantly, this book purpose is to augment other common training components." --Preface (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

Part I Overview and instructions

Introduction and overview of deliberate practice and behavioral parent training

Instructions for the behavioral parent training deliberate practice exercises

Part II Deliberate practice exercises for behavioral parent training skills

Exercises for beginner behavioral parent training skills

Exercise 1. Psychoeducation about behavioral parent training

Exercise 2. Psychoeducation about the functions of child behaviors

Exercise 3. Identifying and validating parent affect

Exercise 4. Teaching parents how to provide praise

Exercises for intermediate behavioral parent training skills

Exercise 5. Teaching parents to provide positive attention

Exercise 6. Teaching planned ignoring with positive attention

Exercise 7. Teaching parents about effective communication

Exercise 8. Teaching parents how to implement positive incentives to bring about behavioral change

Exercises for advanced behavioral parent training skills

Exercise 9. Teaching parents about consequence interventions

Exercise 10. Providing strategies for parent affect management

Exercise 11. Teaching parents about managing behavior in public settings

Exercise 12. Development of homework assignments

Comprehensive exercises

Exercise 13. Annotated behavioral parent training practice session transcript

Exercise 14. Mock behavioral parent training sessions

Part III Strategies for enhancing the deliberate practice exercises

How to get the most out of deliberate practice: Additional guidance for trainers and trainees

Appendix A. Difficulty assessments and adjustments

Appendix B. Deliberate Practice Diary Form

Appendix C. Sample behavioral parent training syllabus with embedded deliberate practice exercises

References

Index

About the authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2025.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1433840421

9781433840425

1433849895

9781433849893

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