The Kazdin Method® of Parenting
Praise is one of the strongest ways to influence your child’s actions
Parenting based on research
Parenting didn’t always come with instructions, but now it does.
Parenting can be challenging. There is so much advice, so many opinions, and, like dieting, fads that momentarily inspire or sound reasonable but are not very effective. Fortunately, techniques have been developed and studied in research that can make parenting much easier. The techniques are useful tools to use as needed for handling problems and building the habits one would like to see. Dr. Alan E. Kazdin has studied the techniques for three decades and has brought the many techniques together to help parents. The Kazdin Method® has helped thousands of families learn effective parenting strategies. These techniques cannot only change parenting behavior but also can reduce stress in the home often made a little worse by reminders, nagging, noncompliance, and routine behaviors that often occur in family life.
Parenting techniques that actually work!
“Our daughter has become a delightful young lady; we enjoy her so much now! The change in her is dramatic, she and the other children are so much happier, get along way better, and we can’t thank you enough!”
“My daughter always struggled with peer groups. My therapist taught me how I can help her in a systematic way so that she could do it…so that she could succeed.”
“Who would have thought you can practice to do a certain behavior??? We practiced going to bed on time and we used lots of praise when she pretended!! It actually helped!”
“We have been through years of therapy with our son. Nothing has worked until we finally began the Yale Parenting Center. Life is happier now, more enjoyable!”
Free Online Training with Coursera
The online training course “Everyday Parenting: The ABCs of Child Rearing” is now available for anyone who needs a little help with parenting. This training course gives you access to a toolkit of behavior-change techniques that will make your typical day in the home easier as you develop the behaviors you would like to see in your child. Chances are your parenting is perfectly fine and working the way you would like. But if you have any frustrations with your child or would like improve your effectiveness in changing your child’s behavior, this training course could help.
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Resources
The best way to eliminate an unwanted behavior is to build a strong alternative behavior in its place, what’s called the positive opposite of the unwanted behavior. The Kazdin Method® provides step-by-step instruction in how to do this under almost any conditions without throwing rewards at your child.
Some of us are just naturals when it comes to parenting. But the rest of us wish that parenting came with operating instructions. Now it does. The Kazdin Method for Parenting is a sensitive and caring program that is well grounded in the latest scientific research.
Alan E. Kazdin brings together the conceptual and empirical bases underlying Parent Management Training with discussions of background, principles, and concepts, supplemented with concrete examples of the ways therapists should interact with parents and children.