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Help-seeking mothers and their children

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Forty-three mothers sought help with management of childhood behaviors. Presenting complaints in half or more of the families included stubbornness, talking back to parents, disobedience and other traits indicative of parent-child interaction difficulties. Pretreatment behavioral observations revealed that mothers shared common characteristics of being low in positive warmth and high in negative and oppositional responses. The children were observed to share common traits of little independent play, frequent frustration, and either ignored their mothers or were verbally and physically oppositional. Behavioral counselling and monitored rehearsal served to reverse many of the behaviors. Almost all mothers reported reduction in problem behaviors. Mothers varied widely in attributing usefulness to different program components.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, 98195, Seattle, Washington

    Kate L. Kogan PhD

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This study was supported by Grant #19642 from the National Institute of Mental Health.

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Kogan, K.L. Help-seeking mothers and their children. Child Psych Hum Dev 8, 204–218 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01463552

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