Among evidence-based therapies for children and adolescents with oppositional, aggressive, and antisocial behaviour, parent management training (PMT) is without peer; no other treatment for children has been as thoroughly investigated and as widely applied. This title brings tog…
"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.
In quick hits, small bites, and short lists of essential, commonsense and occasionally creative advice, pediatrician Rotbart answers a parents three most commonly asked questions: what do my kids need from me? what must I do to be a good parent? how can I avoid feeling guilty fo…
This work is a result of a longitudinal prevention study of 100 families begun the year before their first children entered kindergarten. The text focuses on how parent-child relationships are not the only determinants of a child's academic competence, social competence, and beh…
"The long-cherished assumption that parenting "matters" to the development of children took a round of empirical blows in the 1990s. These findings dovetailed with new emphases on school reform as the best remedy for the perceived decline in academic skills and increase in behav…
Publisher description: The Family Context of Parenting in Children's Adaptation to Elementary School is a result of a longitudinal prevention study of 100 families begun the year before their first children entered kindergarten. Each family went through an assessment and then a …
This work is a result of a longitudinal prevention study of 100 families begun the year before their first children entered kindergarten. The text focuses on how parent-child relationships are not the only determinants of a child's academic competence, social competence, and beh…