Set of family intervention using evidence-based strategies in family behavior therapy that addresses:

- Family formation and adaptation (Family Check-Up Model
- Family disruption and maladaptation (Parent Management Training - Oregon Model)
- Family attenuation and dissolution (Treatment Foster Care - Oregon Model)

Arizona State University

Patterson (1982, as cited in Kramer, 2013) argued that parental behavior alters the probability of child responses. Differences in family interactions of nonaggressive and aggressive children were found that aggressive children were twice as likely as nonaggressive children to persist in behavior following parental punishment.  Parent-child interaction is reciprocal and “teach” each other behaviors that lead to child aggression.  


Parent-Child Interaction Patterns

Dishion, T., Forgatch, M., Chamberlain, P., & Pelham, W. E., 3rd (2016). The Oregon Model of Behavior Family Therapy: From Intervention Design to Promoting Large-Scale System Change. Behavior therapy, 47(6), 812–837. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2016.02.002

Reference for Oregon Model

Shermerhorn, Chow & Cummings  (2010, as cited in Kramer, 2013) described that when parental conflict effect children and adolescents, there is an increase emotional and behavioral problems. Additionally, during high levels of negative exchange, the children tend to blame themselves for their parent’s conflicts and feel emotionally insecure.


Inter-parental Conflict

Oregon Model of Behavior Family Therapy (OM)

Parent training worked better for younger than older children from. The understanding of the importance of intervening early in the developmental cycle, childhood to middle adolescence.

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