Main description:

* Written by leading experts
* Highlights applied research
* Reviews parent training programs
* Details parent-child interaction therapy
* Addresses controversial issues
* Includes downloadable tools
This book is essential reading for psychologists, therapists, students, and anyone who works with children and their families. It is a compact, comprehensive guide to understanding, administering, and teaching caregivers to implement time-out effectively for child behavior management. Readers will learn about time-out's history and scientific research base, particularly with respect to child age, cultural groups, and presenting concerns. Practitioners will appreciate the focus on applied research highlighting the efficacy of specific time-out parameters (such as duration, location, handling escape). Overviews of behavioral parent training programs that include time-out are also provided. The authors then share their expertise in the use of time-out in parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT), both conceptually and by using an in-depth case study. They also thoroughly examine controversial issues related to time-out, from theoretical and practical standpoints. The appendix provides the clinician with hands-on tools: step-by-step diagrams for administering time-out and managing escape, handouts for parents about issuing effective instructions, and a list of further resources.

Contents:

1 Description
1.1 History of Time-Out
1.2 Defining Time-Out: Extinction or
Punishment?
2 Review of Time-Out Research
2.1 Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD)
2.2 Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
(ASD)
2.3 Children With Intellectual Disability/
Cognitive Delay
2.4 Children With Internalizing Disorders
2.5 Child Trauma
2.6 Changing Caregiver Behavior
2.7 Child Compliance Training
2.8 Long-Term Outcomes of Child Behavior
Management
2.9 Summary
3 Using Time-Out: Developmental Age-
Based Considerations
3.1 Children Younger Than 24 Months
3.2 Children Ages 2-10 Years
3.3 Children Ages 8-10 Years and Older
4 Diversity Issues
4.1 Ethnic, Racial, and National Considerations
4.2 Time-Out in Relation to Other Socioeconomic
Factors
5 Evidence-Based Programs Including
Time-Out
5.1 The Defiant Children Program
5.2 Family Interaction Training Program (FIT)
5.3 The Helping the Noncompliant Child
Program
5.4 The Incredible Years Program
5.5 Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
5.6 The Kazdin Method (Formerly Parent
Management Training)
5.7 Triple P - Positive Parenting Program
5.8 Summer Treatment Program
5.9 Parent Management Training - Oregon /
Generation PMT-O
5.10 Summary
6 Parameters of Time-Out
6.1 Verbalized Reason
6.2 Warning
6.3 Administration
6.4 Location/Type
6.5 Duration
6.6 Schedule
6.7 Release From Time-Out
6.8 Escape
7 Controversial Issues Related to Time-Out
7.1 Behavioral Parenting Approaches
7.2 Punishment
7.3 Controversies Around Time-Out
7.4 Legal Issues
7.5 Ethical Issues
7.6 Conclusion
8 Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
Time-Out as an Exemplar
8.1 Introducing Time-Out
8.2 PDI Teach Session
8.3 First PDI Coaching Session
8.4 Gradual Roll-Out Approach
8.5 Alternatives to Chairs, Back-Up Spaces,
and Carrying Children
8.6 Conclusion
9 Case Vignette
9.1 Case Background
9.2 Treatment Plan and Goals
10 Further Reading
11 References
12 Appendix: Tools and Resources