Full Description
Deliberate practice exercises provide trainees and students an opportunity to build competence in essential behavioral parent training skills while developing their own personal therapeutic style.
These exercises present role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a client and a clinician, switching back and forth under the guidance of a supervisor. The clinician improvises appropriate and authentic responses to client statements organized into three difficulty levels—beginner, intermediate, and advanced—that reflect common client questions and concerns.
Trainees will learn how to collaborate with parents to help them build positive relationships with their children as a foundation for creating behavioral change. They will learn how to teach parenting skills like praise to encourage positive behaviors, planned ignoring, establishing consequences that are respectful and developmentally appropriate, and strategies for parents to manage their own strong emotions.
Step-by-step instructions guide participants through the exercises, identify criteria for mastering each skill, and explain how to monitor and adjust difficulty. Guidelines to help trainers and trainees get the most out of training are also provided.
Contents
Series Preface
Tony Rousmaniere and Alexandre Vaz
Acknowledgments
Part I. Overview and Instructions
Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of Deliberate Practice and Behavioral Parent Training
Chapter 2. 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. Teaching Parents About Managing Behavior in Public Settings
Exercise 11. Providing Strategies for Parent Affect Management
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
Chapter 3. 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
