Community Mental Health For Children With Problem...

Ryan is in home-based services at Community Mental Health which means that Ryan’s therapist will come to his home and school for therapy treatment. In additional to the home-based services the therapist used the Parent Management Training – Oregon (PMTO) model. PMTO is a prevention and treatment method for children with problem behaviors (Sigmarsdà ³ttir Guà °mundsdà ³ttir, 2013). PMTO is an evidence-based practice and has many strong studies completed to reflect the strengths of the treatment. Solhom, Ogden, and Jakobsen (2014), report that their clinical outcomes were successfully met by using the robust PMTO treatment intervention, meaning that their clients were able to form a stronger attachment between the children and parents as well as an improvement in behaviors with the children. Another study completed by Wachlarowicz, Snyder, Low, Forgatch, and DeGarmo (2012) on the benefits of PMTO with antisocial parents related a growth in positive parenting and a dec rease in coercive parenting. Their findings supported the effectiveness of PMTO as a preventive intervention for child conduct problems. PMTO is not only beneficial for the children’s behavioral success, but also the success building for the parents. PMTO works by the therapist coaching and supporting parents to treat their children’s behavior problems. Sigmarsdà ³ttir and Guà °mundsdà ³ttir (2013) believes that â€Å"family interactions that are characterized by escalating negative interactions contribute to coercive patterns