“…Fifty years ago, Boardman (1962) described an alternative to the standard psychotherapeutic approach with children: “A ‘short cut’ involving the application of simple learning principles…” (p. 293) where the parents of 5-year old “Rusty” were taught procedures to change his rebellious behavior. Subsequently, in the mid to late 1960s, a group of clinical psychologists began programs of clinical research utilizing parents as the focus of intervention for the disruptive behaviors of their young children (Bernal, Durgee, Pruett, & Burns, 1968; Hanf, 1969; Patterson & Brodsky, 1966; Wahler, Winkel, Peterson, & Morrison, 1965).…”