Family and Disability: An Example of Behavioural Parent Training

The aim of this paper is to focus on adaptation processes that families of disabled children must realize for a correct beginning of the entire system. In particular, difficulties that parents must face in order to manage maladaptive and non compliant behaviours were analysed. A Behavioural Parent Training was proposed to parents of non compliance children with intellectual disabilities and to parents of non compliance children but with a typical development. Of course, we won’t to compare these different family contexts but underline that, in both situations, it is possible to give adequate support to parents and help them on management children behaviours.