Parent Skills

Parenting skills training focus on general parent-child interactions. Parenting skills training is not just for parents who have been accused of being “bad parents” and it is not just for parents of children with serious psychological problems. Parenting skills training is worthwhile for every parent, because it can help you do the best job possible in raising your children, because it can improve your confidence in your parenting ability, and because this is the most important job you will ever have.

We provide tips on different parenting styles, the effects of discipline, and how children respond to various people and life events, such as divorce, stepparents, abuse, sibling conflict, poor academic success, bullying, or parental substance abuse. We provide effective treatment interventions for children and families in crisis, along with a basis for teaching parents how to manage their children's behavior effectively, and how to intervene with specific child and adolescent problems.

Our goal is to help parents avoid ineffective parenting responses, by learning effective ways of managing their children's behavior. Parents are also taught strategies for managing children with special needs, such as ADHD children, children adjusting to divorce, and children diagnosed with specific psychological or behavioral problems.