All behavior communicates something.
Behavioral Parent Training
BTB specializes in positive Behavioral Parent Training (sometimes called Parent Management Training or Behavior Therapy), utilizing behavior analysis principles and components of evidence-based family therapy treatments. Better yet, we create a tailored program based on your parenting style, strengths, and lifestyle that helps you build problem solving skills to respond to your child’s developing needs. Parent training differs from family therapy services in that it’s for families looking for a more targeted, concrete, and direct skill-based experience to better understand and manage challenging or disruptive behavior. Behavioral Parent Training is a series of 50-minute appointments where each session gradually teaches you the parent skills that work and are based in research. Why is this important? Are you stuck in a cycle of never-ending “no’s,” yelling, or guilt? Are you feeling frustrated and reactive? Positive Behavioral Parent Training at BTB not only normalizes the struggle, but helps you feel better equipped with tools to identify the triggers, understand what your child is really communicating, and know the tools to utilize during frustrated moments to reduce the reactive parenting. By reducing reactive parenting and improving responsive parenting, you will have the skills to confidently implement strategies that will help build your child’s coping skills, self-esteem, increase more adaptive behaviors, and improve the parent/child relationship.
Not sure if Behavioral Parent Training is right for you? Research supports Behavioral Parent Training as the first line of support to help improve children’s disruptive behavior, and overall socio-emotional and behavioral functioning in home, school, and community settings. For more information about Behavioral Parent Training, most common presenting concerns, and what to expect, click here.
Research has supported that Behavioral Parent Training is most effective for the following concerns…
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Aggression, Anger, or Irritability
Attention or Behavior Concerns
Defiance or Noncompliance
Hyperactive or Impulsive Behaviors
Negative Parent/Child Interactions
School refusal or behaviors interfering with academic engagement
Parent Booster Sessions
You’ve completed the Behavioral Parent Training sessions and feel confident in utilizing skills for a range of your child’s behaviors in all types of contexts. So now what? While we believe you will leave feeling equipped and confident in navigating your child’s behavior, life (or your child) may throw you a wrench from time to time. You might feel rusty or need a quick problem solving session with the expert. BTB offers parent booster sessions where parents can revisit strategies or learn creative new ways to adjust previously successful strategies to their child’s developmental needs. Similar to our consultation services, parent booster sessions provide an opportunity for parents to benefit from a single session without long-term commitment to the therapy process. Parent booster sessions are 50-minute appointments and appropriate for parents who have already completed Parent Behavioral Training. Need a few tips and tricks?