Young children's display of emotional and behavioral difficulties is relatively commonplace. However, if left unaddressed, these challenging behaviors have potential to develop into more serious problems. Furthermore, parents often report feeling unprepared to prevent and address their young children's emotional and behavioral difficulties. Fortunately, behavioral parent training strategies, such as Parent–Child Interaction Therapy, have been found to be effective for helping parents learn to effectively improve young children's behavior. Although effective, there are barriers to accessing behavioral parent training, such as cost, lack of transportation, and living in rural areas with limited mental and behavioral health care. Therefore, the purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the effects of internet-delivered PCIT (iPCIT) on parents' use of praise, reflections, imitations, descriptions, and enjoyment/enthusiasm (PRIDE skills) with children referred for disruptive behavior. Participants in this study included three parents and their 2-year-old children. We used a concurrent multiple probe across participants' design to test the effects of iPCIT on parents' use of PRIDE skills and maintenance of treatment effects. Results indicated that all three parents increased their use of PRIDE skills and maintained them following termination of treatment. Results, implications, and future directions are discussed.

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互联网提供的亲子互动疗法可以增加积极的养育行为，并随着时间的推移而维持

幼儿表现出情绪和行为困难是相对常见的。然而，如果不加以解决，这些具有挑战性的行为有可能发展成更严重的问题。此外，父母经常报告说，他们感觉没有准备好预防和解决幼儿的情绪和行为困难。幸运的是，行为父母培训策略，例如亲子互动疗法，被发现可以有效帮助父母学习有效改善幼儿的行为。尽管有效，但获得行为家长培训仍存在障碍，例如成本、缺乏交通以及生活在精神和行为健康护理有限的农村地区。因此，这项试点研究的目的是评估互联网提供的 PCIT (iPCIT) 对父母使用表扬、反思、模仿、描述和享受/热情（骄傲技能）来处理孩子的破坏性行为的影响。这项研究的参与者包括三位家长和他们两岁的孩子。我们在参与者的设计中使用了并行多重探针来测试 iPCIT 对父母使用 PRIDE 技能和维持治疗效果的影响。结果表明，三位家长都增加了 PRIDE 技能的使用，并在治疗终止后维持了这些技能。讨论了结果、影响和未来方向。