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It's All Ice Cream: Common Ingredients in Parenting Programs

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1.  Motivational Interviewing is a technique designed to:
  1. Give parents the right answers
  2. Guide parents to choose solutions
  3. Increase motivation
  4. Confront resistance
2.  When doing a Motivational Interviewing interview, always start by:
  1. Giving advice as the first intervention
  2. Labelling the child with a diagnosis
  3. Getting into a confrontation over the child’s behavior
  4. Listening to parent concerns
3.  Evidence based parenting programs for young children with oppositional behavior are:
  1. Incredible Years, Triple P Parenting, Parent Child Interaction Therapy
  2. Love and Logic, Raising a Loving Child
  3. The Explosive Child, 1-2-3 Magic
  4. The universal guide to ADHD
4.  The first of the two elements found in all effective parenting programs is:
  1. Teaching positive parent child interactions with practice
  2. Teaching parents about developmental stages
  3. Teaching parents self calming and meditation
  4. Teaching parents to recognize child psychopathology
5.  The second element found in all effective parenting programs is:
  1. Giving clear directions
  2. Learning to reason with your child
  3. Teaching parents correct use of Time Out/alternatives to spanking
  4. Making eye contact and speaking slowly
6.  Effective parenting programs
  1. Must be done in group settings
  2. Must be done working with individual families
  3. Can be implemented individually, in group or virtually
  4. Are rarely available
7.  From a cultural perspective, parenting programs:
  1. Have only been tested on white middle class children
  2. Have never been evaluated outside the US
  3. Are in conflict with child rearing in many cultures
  4. Have been successfully implemented in over 30 countries on 5 continents
8.  Opposition to Time Out comes from child development professionals and educators who are concerned that:
  1. Time Out may be misused to emotionally abuse children
  2. It may not work
  3. Time out masks other problems
  4. Time out delays language development
9.  Time Out is defined in the original studies as:
  1. Parents giving themselves a time out from the child
  2. A brief 2 day holiday away from home
  3. Putting the child in isolation for at least an hour
  4. Time out, time away from social reinforcement/interactions for a few minutes
10.  Research on Time Out shows that it:
  1. Causes emotional harm
  2. It generally reduces problem behaviors
  3. Must be done after at least 5 warnings to be effective
  4. Cannot be done in schools

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