G. R. Patterson (1976) Living with Children: New Methods for Parents and Teachers (Revised Edition) . Research Press: Champaign, Illinois, ix + 114 pp. Price $3.95

Abstract

This edition is geared more to the needs of parents of normal pre-school children. It grew out of Patterson's Social Learning Project, and so section one introduces social learning theory, stressing both the role of reinforcement and the reciprocal nature of parent-child influence. Section 2 presents a simplified account of observation and data collection, with more stress on gathering frequency data than on presenting the data counts in graph form. It also provides a useful rewritten section on the application of "time out from positive reinforcement".