PSYC 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Parent Management Training, Contingency Management, Operant Conditioning
23 Dec 2015
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Teaches parents to change their child"s behaviour in the home using contingency management techniques. The focus is on improving parent-child interactions and enhancing other parenting skills. Operant conditioning: consequences of a behavior will determine whether you get more or less of it in the future. Patterson"s coercion theory: child engages in problematic behavior, parent reinforces it by giving in to demands, child stops behavior, which reinforces the parent, everyone is reinforced, which locks them in a vicious, escalating cycle. This isn"t used only for parents: it works in relationships and such. Education: reasonable expectations for child"s behavior: children are not just short adults. A mom may really need a child to do something that they aren"t yet ready to do. Communication: how to talk to your child so that you get the results you want, say what you mean . Tell child what to do, rather than what not to do.
