Living With Conduct Disorder

Parent Management Training

Also known simply by the name of parent training or as behavioral parent training, parent management training is a group of treatment programs with the goal of changing parenting behaviors by means of teaching parents methods of positive reinforcement for the improvement of children's behavioral problems such as temper tantrums, aggression, hyperactivity, and a difficulty in following directions. As one of the most explored treatments on the table for conduct disorder, it is effective both in the reduction of children's disruptive behavior and the improvement of parents' mental health. Conduct problems with an early onset are often contributed to by inconsistent discipline, inadequate supervision, poor parenting, and parents' stress, mental health difficulties, or substance abuse. Abusive parenting and parenting with negative practices contribute to a coercive cycle, wherein the negative behavior of one person is undertaken to control another person's behavior, who responds negatively, and so on. Parent management training's goal is to break those negatively reinforcing behaviors by teaching parents to instead reinforce positive behaviors.

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