Treatment Administration
Common features among treatments. Several features of clinical
care, individualization of treatment, and case management deserve
comment. First, between treatment sessions, the parents were called
(1-2 times) to address problems and emergent issues, to refine programs
as needed, and to praise the parents for carrying out specific
actions discussed in the treatment sessions. Second, parents and children
were involved in each treatment condition. For PSST, parents
participated with their child at the end of selected treatment sessions
to learn their child's problem-solving steps and to help prompt the
child's use of the skills. For PMT, the child was involved in selected
PMT sessions to review behavioral programs at home and at school
and to negotiate contingency contracts. Third, treatments were guided
by manuals that specified the content and focus of each session. At the
same time, the treatments were individualized to incorporate specific
referral problems of the child and to consider parent and child routines,
sibling and peer relations, and other home and school circumstances.