To offer parents a tool to record all positive behaviors exhibited weekly by a child; a tool for therapists to reinforce positive behaviors between sessions through verbal praise or in-session rewards.

To identify and practice positive communication skills to enhance parenting.

To help fearful and shy children focus on why self-degrading statements may not be true, and ways to reframe these statements in a more positive way.

To think about and practice alternatives to physical expressions of anger.

To increase knowledge about several creative fixes children can try to use to work through their fears.

To increase knowledge about a technique in which paradoxical intention is used as a way to give control back to the child to make positive behavioral changes.

To increase knowledge about a paradoxical intentionality technique in which a client or family with rigid behavioral patterns is asked to continue, or even exaggerate, an undesired behavior as a way to regain a sense of control, thereby leading to gradual extinction.

To increase knowledge about a paradoxical intentionality technique to use when clients are exhibiting mindless behavior patterns that have been resistant to change. The therapist suggests that the client only pretend to have the symptomatic behavior, creating a playful, constructive tone for growth and change.