A home-based therapy program requires the parents of the child to become the primary therapists. It is possible for these “untrained” people to take on this role, or should therapy only be carried out by properly trained therapists?

No matter how well trained a therapist may be, there is one advantage that parents will always possess. Put simply, most parents are more motivated than any therapist could ever be, since it is their child that requires treatment. Furthermore, they know and understand the child better than anyone else and, as a result, can usually get the best performance out of the child.

These are attributes that a therapist can never have, and yet they are vital to a successful treatment program. So what if the two were combined- the therapist's technical knowledge and practical experience with the parents' understanding and love of their child? Surely this would be the best way in which to conduct a treatment program.

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The parents cannot teach the therapist how to be the mother or father of their child, but the therapist can show the parents how to carry out the treatment required, providing that the techniques to be used are not too complicated. In this way, the talents of those involved would be utilized to the fullest - the therapist would devise and update the appropriate treatment program, and this would then be administered by the parents.

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