Parent Management Training

Among evidence-based therapies for children and adolescents with oppositional aggressive and antisocial behavior parent management training (PMT) is without peer; no other treatment for children has been as thoroughly investigated and as widely applied. Here Alan E. Kazdin brings together the conceptual and empirical bases underlying PMT with discussions of background principles and concepts supplemented with concrete examples of the ways therapists should interact with parents and children. The second half of the book is a PMT treatment manual. The manual details the particulars of the therapy: what is done to and by whom what the therapist should say and what to expect at each stage of treatment. It also contains handouts charts and aides for parents. A companion website (oup/us/pmt) provides additional resources for clinicians.