Updated and expanded, this remarkably clear and effective manual inclu des, in a single volume, a thorough clinical guide to and presentation of Barkley's ten-session training program, a fully rewritten and more extensive assessment section, and helpful parent and teacher handouts . This revised volume incorporates DSM-IV diagnostic criteria and offe rs even more guidelines for assessing children with defiant behavior, including a detailed parent interview that goes through each of the re levant childhood disorders. In addition, it provides two new scales fo r assessing the parents for ADHD or oppositional defiant disorder as w ell as norms for scoring them.