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Behavioural Parent Training |
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Parent training and education is an empirically-supported therapeutic approach using principles and techniques derived from behaviour therapy, attachment theory and neuroscience. Parent training invites parents and caregivers to identify and examine the impact of various influences upon the parent-child relationship. These influences can include personal history, cultural values, lifestyle choices, the home environment, community, a child’s developmental level, personality, and more. Once these influences are identified and the impact better understood, parents can begin to modify their own behaviours and expectations as well as those of their children, to accomplish personal goals such as improved family closeness, reduced arguing and fighting between parents and siblings, and increased family quality time. In individual sessions, on a weekly to biweekly schedule, parents will learn a range of behavioural, developmental, and anxiety and mood management skills. They then work with the clinician to customize a family plan utilizing those strategies that are best matched with their unique family needs. Families that might benefit from parent training and education may be seeking guidance with the following: |
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