Parent Training

Parent Management Training, as developed by Dr. Alan Kazdin (KPMT), is an evidence-based short term therapy (typically 12-16 sessions), that helps parents cope with the daily challenges of child rearing by teaching them specific skills that enable them to help their children develop age-appropriate prosocial behaviors.

KPMT is well suited for motivated families who seek a skill-based intervention to address a wide range of behavioral problems. These include common issues like bedtime problems, homework impasses and sibling rivalry, to more serious issues such as lying, tantrums and serious school problems. KPMT is effective for children with and without diagnostic labels such as Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

Research shows that over 80% of families who adhere to the program report significant improvement in their child’s behavior, which in turn leads to greater family harmony (see www.yale.edu/yaleparentingcenter and www.alankazdin.com).

I am honored to be one of very few professionals in Westchester County to be fully certified as a KPMT therapist.

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If you are experiencing a psychiatric emergency, call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room.

Quotes

  • There is no magic to Kazdin Parent Management Training. It takes root in decades of accumulated research on how to develop positive behaviors, eliminate undesired behaviors,and achieve greater peace in your home. It will change not only your child's behavior but your own.
    Alan E. Kazdin, Ph.D., Director, Yale Parenting Center
  • Helping children recognize and correct their thinking mistakes is far more powerful than providing repeated reassurance.
    Dawn Huebner, Ph.D., Psychologist and Author
  • Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
    Fred Rogers, Television Celebrity and Author
  • Parents don’t make mistakes because they don’t care, but because they care so deeply.
    T. Berry Brazelton, Pediatrician and Author
  • Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
    Louise J. Kaplan, Psychologist and Author
  • Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
    Fred Rogers, Television Celebrity and Author