Helping Parents with Challenging Children Positive Family Intervention Parent Workbook

Having a child with challenging behavior can be frustrating and affect theentire family. This workbook will help you take a more positive attitude towardyour child and carry out effective steps to improve behavior. You will begin tofeel more confident in your parenting skills and more optimistic about yourchild's future. The program outlined in this workbook will be tailored to yourchild's and family's needs and goals. It will teach you how to identify whatsets off your child's problem behavior, as well as what your child gets oravoids from misbehaving. You will learn strategies to prevent problems, manageconsequences, and teach your child new skills. With the help of your facilitatoryou will design a behavior support plan for your child. Finally, you will putthe plan into effect and monitor the results. Throughout the program, you willbe practicing how to think more positively, which can help you be a betterparent. In addition to working with your facilitator in session, you will becompleting homework assignments using the workbook. Each chapter provides theinformation and forms you need to assess your child's behavior, apply newstrategies, and track your family's progress. As you support positive behaviorstep by step, you will be working towards improving the lives of your child andyour family.