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Quaderni di Psicoterapia Cognitiva - Open Access

Studies and researches

No. 46 (2020)

Parent training models

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/qpc46-2020oa10154
Submitted
luglio 17, 2020
Published
2020-07-17

Abstract

Child develops its own cognitive, social and emotional skills, within the relationship with his/her parents. In the present work, we examined a psychotherapeutic intervention model, which aims to improve the child-caregivers relationship: parent training. It seeks to implement parenting strategies (enhancing positive parenting and reducing the dysfunctional ones) to improve the offspring’s, and consequently the family’s well-being. Usually, this intervention model aims to improve the parents’ ability to monitor and manage their child’s behavior, fostering his/her social and emotional skills; besides, it trains parents to recognize and reinforce the child’s positive behavior. Literature suggests the effectiveness of this indirect intervention for several childhood disorders; in the present work, we described some of the most effective evidence-based parent training models for internalizing and externalizing disorders. Moreover, the third wave cognitive therapies have developed new parent training models

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