1. What are the different parenting styles?

• Authoritarian parenting: Parents expect conformity to parental rules and expectations
• Authoritative parenting: Parents expect mature, independent and age appropriate behaviour from the child
• Neglectful parenting: Parents are disengaged, low in responsiveness
• Indulgent parenting: Parents meet demands of child and place little restrictions on them.

2. List 3 common behavioural problems in children for which PMT can be used.

Temper tantrums, disobedience/defiance to comply with instructions, hyperactivity.

3. What is the parent management training?

The aim of PMT is to decrease or eliminate a child’s disruptive or inappropriate behaviours at home or school and to replace problematic ways of acting with positive interactions with peers, parents and such authority figures as teachers or other significant others.

4. What is the principle behind parent management training?

Parent management training is based on learning theory; how children learn through parent-child interactions and reinforcement principles.

5. Name 3 methods of behaviour modification.

Successive Approximation
Modeling
Cue principle

6. A school has asked you to talk to the group of parents reparding the parerting style which should be adopted. What would you advise the parents?

7. What is the meaning and significance of parent management training? State the rationale underllying this approach.