NECBT's Behavioral Training for Parents and Professionals

NECBT's Behavioral Training brings families together.

NECBT's Behavioral Training for Parents and Professionals class will be starting on Thursday July 10^th! As mentioned in last week’s entry, NECBT’s Behavioral Training is part of the three-tiered system of our Children and Adolescent Programming here at NECBT. All parents of children age 17 and younger are required to attend this 10-week seminar to learn how to help reinforce the I-CBT treatment that children are learning in individual sessions. However, Behavioral Training is a great learning opportunity for parents of patients of all ages. 

Behavioral Training is specifically designed for parents, teachers, and administrators looking to learn strategies to help improve children’s behavior in home, school, and social environments.

Working with children can be challenging, even when they are on their best behavior. When children act out and exhibit behavioral problems, unnecessary strain is added to the relationship between adult and child, and can often make a difficult job seem impossible. At NECBT we teach a different approach to working through children’s behavioral problems.

In the NECBT Behavioral Training program, designed by American Psychotherapist and NECBT founder Thomas A. Cordier, we use a method derived from the concrete science of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in conjunction with a learning method known as Differential Reinforcement of Other behaviors (DRO). Studies have shown and scholars have noted that “[b]ehavioral […] training has emerged as one of the most successful and well-researched interventions to date in the treatment and prevention of child and adolescent problem behaviors.”¹ Our Behavioral Training program teaches parents and those who work with children how to encourage appropriate behaviors from them, how to effectively use punishment, and how to help better shape children’s behavior.

NECBT’s Behavioral Training has worked wonders for families with children as young as 4 and as old as 18, and the feedback that we have received has been glowing. Once parents begin to apply at home what they learn in our training, they often find that their children are more polite, respectful, productive, and obedient. The most common feedback we receive is that Behavioral Training has “just made the whole home environment so much more positive!”

July 10^th is just around the corner, and while we often have new sessions of Behavioral Training forming, summer is a great time to learn new skills that you can bring to your parenting or teaching as children move into a new school year. This session, running from early July through early September, will have you well settled with new and useful skills to apply in your home or in the classroom.

If you or someone you know would like to sign up for our next 10-week session of Behavioral Training for Parents and Professionals, please call our office at 

(860) 430-5515. 

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¹ Shaffer, Anne, Kotchick, Beth A., Dorsey, Shannon, Forehand, Rex. The Past, Present and Future of Behavioral Parent Training: Interventions for Child and Adolescent Problem Behavior. The Behavior Analyst Today. 2001 Spring; 2 (2): 91-105.