Alan Kazdin
Professor of Psychology, Yale University
Alan Kazdin is the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology at Yale University, and the director of the Yale Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic. His work focuses primarily on child and adolescent disorders, behavior therapy, and clinical methodology, with over 600 articles and over 40 books and chapters published in these areas. He has served as Editor of many prominent psychology journals including the American Psychological Association’s Encyclopedia of Psychology. He was also the 2008 President of the American Psychological Association.
His latest book is "The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child."
How to Stop Your Kids from Fighting
Effusive praise said while touching your children - do that once a day, three times week - and you’ll change the fighting that goes on between them.
Punishment Doesn’t Teach Behavior
Punishment - mild, severe, abusive - changes behavior only at the moment it is delivered.
How to Deal (and Not to Deal) with a Tantrum
If someone is drowning, that’s not a time you can teach them to swim.
What Shakespeare Can Teach Your Children
The language is odd, but Shakespeare’s insights are really universal.
Is Your Child a Brat? Use Rewards, Not Punishment
The idea that punishment teaches a kid not to misbehave is a myth, pure and simple. Here are three steps for actually changing your kid’s unpleasant behavior.
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