Promoting Children's Resilience by Strengthening Parenting Practices in Families under Extreme Stress: The Parent Management Training-Oregon Model

In this chapter, our focus is on extensions or adaptations of the Parent Management Training-Oregon (PMTO) model for the most highly stressed populations: those in which either parents or children are exposed to traumatic or extremely stressful events such as homelessness, war, family violence, and immigration due to economic or political instability. Common to all these stressors is a combination of external threats (e.g. violence) and family disruption or dislocation. Disruption or dislocation may occur as a result of violence, as, for example when an abused spouse flees the family home with her children. Conversely, violence may be a consequence of dislocation, as, for example when immigrants fleeing economic instability are violently preyed upon via human trafficking or when smuggled across borders. Thus, although we examine adaptations to PMTO for these populations separately, by category of stressor, in reality these stressors are often interconnected. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)