Elisa Bronfman, PhD, Harvard Medical School; Boston Children's Hospital
Johanna D. Sagarin, PhD, Assumption University, Worcester, MA

Grounded in decades of clinical experience, this empathic, practical book presents a
research-informed framework for delivering parent guidance as a stand-alone
intervention or adjunct to child therapy. Elisa Bronfman and Johanna D. Sagarin
delineate flexible coaching strategies to enhance family relationships and parenting
skills and find new solutions to struggles around discipline, homework, bedtime, meals,
screen time, and other daily routines. The approach can be tailored for parents dealing
with any child mental health concern or behavioral challenge. Assessment, treatment
planning, clinical decision making, and progress monitoring are all discussed in
step-by-step detail. Packed with illustrative case material, the book features 34
reproducible clinical tools that can be photocopied or downloaded.


•Fills a critical training gap by showing child therapists how to successfully coach
parents.
•Evidence-based, practitioner-endorsed techniques will help providers establish and
maintain successful partnerships.
•Tackles "usual suspect" problems that parents and kids struggle with, like managing
homework, screen time, getting ready for school, and sibling conflicts.
•Perfect for therapists and social workers at all levels, as well as graduate students and
trainees; helpful for pediatricians and allied health professionals.