Behavioral Parent Training
(BPT)
For Parents of Children and Adolescents with Noncompliant Behavior
Behavioral Parent Training
(BPT)
For Parents of Children and Adolescents with Noncompliant Behavior
Behavioral Parent Training
- Are you a parent struggling with how to manage your child’s behavior?
- Do you find your child not complying with your requests no matter how many times you ask?
- Does your child respond by yelling, throwing temper tantrums, or demonstrating other undesirable behavior?
- Do you find yourself getting angry, yelling, or just giving up?
If you often find yourself in this escalating cycle of negative interactions with your child, don’t despair! With the support of an online child psychologist at Positive Development Psychology, you can learn strategies to increase desirable behavior, decrease unwanted behavior, and in turn reduce your stress and create a more pleasant home environment for everyone.
What is Behavioral Parent Training?
Behavioral Parent Training (BPT) is an evidence-based treatment approach that trains parents or caregivers in the management of noncompliant or defiant child behavior. Specifically, this approach teaches parents how to respond to children who display oppositional behavior and have problems listening and complying with parental requests and following rules.
BPT also guides parents in reducing high-conflict interactions. While BPT was designed to address childhood behavior disorders, such as oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), some of the strategies taught are also relevant to parents of typically developing children with more mild behavioral challenges.
What do parents learn by participating in Behavioral Parent Training?
BPT provides parents with the tools to manage child oppositional behavior. In particular, BPT helps parents to:
- Understand the typical causes of child defiance
- Increase wanted and reduce unwanted child behaviors
- Use effective language to increase compliance
- Provide consistent and appropriate consequences
- Reinforce desired behaviors and appropriately use rewards
- Set limits and implement discipline techniques
- Increase positive interactions between parent and child
- Anticipate and proactively plan for misbehavior
- Foster a more positive home environment
What are some other benefits of Behavioral Parent Training?
Unsurprisingly, children engaging in disruptive behaviors are typically unmotivated to work with a child therapist. When experiencing strong emotions, like anger or frustration, they are also unlikely to independently implement behavior strategies taught to them in individual therapy. Therefore, utilizing a parent-based model is a desirable and effective way to address childhood misbehavior. Research demonstrates that BPT results in a significant reduction of oppositional and defiant behaviors in children whose main struggle is noncompliance.
Contact us at Positive Development Psychology to speak with a psychologist trained in Behavioral Parent Training (BPT) and to discuss if your child would benefit from this treatment approach.