62nd Annual Meeting

October 26 - 31, 2015

Workshop 11 (ticket)

Helping the Noncompliant Child: An Accessible Parent Training Intervention for Children Ages 3-8

Teaching parents specific skills to increase their positive interactions and decrease aversive interactions that contribute to oppositional behavior is one of the most effective and strongly supported interventions for working with children who present with challenging behaviors. Helping the Noncompliant Child (HNC) is an extensively researched, evidence-based model of parent management training that involves both the child and the parent in the sessions, giving the parent the opportunity to practice the skills in front of the therapist. Participants in this workshop learn the theory and evidence behind HNC; and, through role-playing, gain experience in the baseline observations, session structure, and methods of teaching these skills to parents.