Discipline, Love, and Authenticity: A Psychologist’s Guide to Coaching Parents
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Abstract
Teaching parents effective parenting strategies has several challenges for therapists, often stemming from family dynamics and ineffective discipline. Harsh punishment, inconsistency, and permissiveness can worsen behaviors, highlighting the need for structured, supportive parenting. Authoritative parenting, with warmth and consistency, fosters positive development. Therapists play a key role in helping parents regulate emotions, avoid disciplinary hypocrisy, and adapt strategies across developmental stages. By equipping parents with practical tools, therapy can strengthen parent-child relationships, reduce opposition, and promote long-term behavioral resilience.
Continuing Education Information
1 CE Credit, Instructional Level: Intermediate
1 Contact Hour (New York Board of Psychology)
Disclosures: Dr. Pagán’s research is funded by the University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Seed grant, an Autism Speaks Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant (#13904), and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health, through UTHealth-CCTS grant number [5TL1TR003169-05 and T32TR004904]. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences or the National Institutes of Health. Generative AI was not used for the development or content of this presentation.
Learning Objectives:
- List characteristics of oppostional behavior.
- Identify components of effective parenting.
- Describe the role therapists play in coaching parents.
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Antonio F. Pagán, PhD
Antonio F. Pagán, PhD, is a clinical psychology postdoctoral fellow at UTHealth Houston. Dr. Pagán conducts research on neurodevelopmental disorders across the lifespan with a focus on how these disorders create difficulties during key life stage transitions.
