Readership
Counselors, Educators, Pediatricians, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Researchers, Social Workers, Therapists
Scope
Child & Family Behavior Therapy is a multi-dimensional source for contemporary applied research addressing the needs of children, adults, and their families, as well as practitioners and researchers. This journal focuses on the practical applications of broadly defined behavior therapy (behavior therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, applied behavior analysis). The demonstrably validated evidence-based interventions from around the world will facilitate the work of child psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers, social workers, school counselors, family therapists, researchers, and other practitioners. Issues: interventions for parents as well as children, school and homework issues, social skills development, comprehensive behavioral interventions. Homework for adolescents—self- and parental monitoring, behavioral problems in preschoolers, parental tolerance for child misbehavior, the effectiveness of a standard parenting skill programs, interventions for infant and toddler sleep disturbance, mothers' and fathers' discipline of hard-to-manage toddlers, applied behavior analysis intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder, simplified habit reversal plus adjunct contingencies in the treatment of thumb sucking and hair pulling, the effects of mothers' depression on the behavioral assessment of disruptive child behavior, the behavioral treatment of a young adult with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, gender issues, cultural issues, ethnic issues, and family issues.
Sponsoring Association(s)
American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors & Therapists (AASECT)