Parenting

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1. Expresses feelings of inadequacy in setting effective limits with their child.

2. Reports difficulty in managing the challenging problem behavior of their child.

3. Frequently struggles to control their emotional reactions to their child’s misbehavior.

4. Exhibits increasing conflict between spouses over how to parent/discipline their child. 

5. Displays deficits in parenting knowledge and skills.

6. Displays inconsistent parenting styles.

7. Demonstrates a pattern of lax supervision and inadequate limit-setting.

8. Regularly overindulges their child’s wishes and demands. 

9. Displays a pattern of harsh, rigid, and demeaning behavior toward their child.

10. Shows a pattern of physically and emotionally abusive parenting.

11. Lacks knowledge regarding reasonable expectations for a child’s behavior at a given development level.

Have exhausted their ideas and resources in attempting to deal with their child’s behavior.