Defiant Children, Second Edition: A Clinician's Manual for Assessment and Parent Training

This remarkably clear and effective manual includes, in a single 8½" x 11" volume, an introduction and thorough clinical guide to Barkley's 10-session parent training program. Practitioners learn proven techniques for helping parents to understand their child’s misbehavior, motivate their child and increase compliance, decrease disruptive behavior, establish proper disciplinary systems without corporal punishment, and improve school behavior with a home-based reward system.

Russell A. Barkley, PhD, ABPP, ABCN, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Barkley has published numerous books and five assessment scales, plus more than 260 scientific articles and book chapters on ADHD, executive functioning, and childhood defiance. He is also the editor of the newsletter The ADHD Report. A frequent conference presenter and speaker who is widely cited in the national media, he is past president of the Section on Clinical Child Psychology (the former Division 12) of the American Psychological Association, and of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. His website is www.russellbarkley.org.