This is a school-based prevention program for children with behavioral disorders and their parents. The aim is to reduce problematic behavior and promote a prosocial attitude. The intervention takes place over nine months through 38 group sessions.
The group of children attends 23 meetings to develop basic communication skills, emotion recognition, appropriate ways of controlling anger, and reflective problem-solving skills.
Parents attend 15 sessions focused on managing their children’s problematic behavior, praising good behavior, solving family problems, and building family cohesion. The parent and child components of this intervention are integrated, since the same therapist runs both groups, with a significant overlap in the issues addressed.