A Practitioner's Guide to Enhancing Parenting Skills: Assessment, Analysis and Intervention offers a detailed and stepwise approach to problem behaviour analysis and management, based on the successful and evidence-based Enhancing Parenting Skills Programme (EPaS).

Part I Background; Chapter 1 Conduct problems and the risk factors for poor outcomes; Chapter 2 Interventions; Chapter 3 The EPaS programme, an early intervention for families at home; Part II, The EPaS programme; Chapter 4 Assessment session 1: setting up an effective working relationship with parents; Chapter 5 Assessment session 1: initial information gathering; Chapter 6 Assessment session 2: the typical day interview and parent record keeping; Chapter 7 Assesment session 3: observing the parent-child interaction and other information sources; Chapter 8 Developing a case analysis; Chapter 9 Sample case analysis; Chapter 10 The intervention plan; Chapter 11 Teaching new behaviour; Chapter 12 Concluding the EPaS intervention; Part III Typical problems; Chapter 13 A bedtime problem; Chapter 14 A morning problem; Chapter 15 A shopping trip; Chapter 16 A toileting problem; Chapter 17 An eating problem; Chapter 18 Avoidance and anxiety-based problems; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Index