Parent Training and Emotion Coaching for Children With Limited Prosocial Emotions

Parent Training and Emotion Coaching for Children With Limited Prosocial Emotions

The proposed research will focus on the development of a brief emotion-coaching (EC) parenting program (which directly targets child emotion awareness/recognition and affective empathy), that will be combined with a well-established parent management training program (Helping the Noncompliant Child; HNC) for treating oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) in children who also have limited prosocial emotions (e.g., lack of guilt and empathy, callous use of others).

Inclusion Criteria:

• Child with oppositional defiant disorder and low prosocial emotions

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unable to speak/understand English
• Significant developmental delay or autism spectrum disorder