This article reviews the literature on the extratraining effects of behavioral family intervention relating to parent behavior. The review classifies generalization and maintenance into several distinct categories suggested by Drabman, Hammer, and Rosenbaum (1979). The authors conclude that only limited aspects of generalization and maintenance questions in parent training have been addressed and highlight several persisting methodological deficiencies that have hampered the development and evaluation of effective generalization programming technologies.
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