What training is necessary to use this manual?

Excerpted from Part 1: About the Program - TAPP-C: Clinician’s Manual for Preventing and Treating Juvenile Fire Involvement.

This is a manual for mental health clinicians who treat children and adolescents who have behaviour problems, and their families.

The clinician who intends to use this manual should be familiar with the following fields:

• normative child development
• child psychopathology
• the theory and practice of parent management training (PMT) (Cunningham, Bremner & Boyle, 1995; Kazdin, Siegel & Bass, 1992; Webster-Stratton, Hollinsworth & Kolpacoff, 1989)
• child and adolescent cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) (Augimeri, Koegl & Goldberg, 2001; Kazdin, Bass, Siegel & Thomas, 1989; Kendall & Braswell, 1993; Larson & Lochman, 2002; Webster, Augimeri & Koegl, 2002) and
• collaborative intervention approaches (Webster-Stratton & Hancock, 1998).

In addition to this more general experience in treating child behaviour problems and the issues surrounding it, clinicians should also be familiar with:

• the assessment and treatment of fire involvement by children and adolescents and
• the empirical literature on childhood firesetting (e.g., Gaynor, 1991; Kolko, 1996; Kolko, 2001).

Ideally, the treatment component of TAPP-C should be offered as part of the full TAPP-C program, which, in addition to the TAPP-C treatment component, includes a comprehensive risk assessment of the child and his or her family by mental health professionals, and a home fire-safety check and fire-safety education provided by fire service professionals. In addition to resources that are available in the literature, TAPP-C offers specialized training for mental health professionals in assessing and treating firesetting by children and adolescents. For more information about training opportunities, contact manual authors.

As well, the TAPP-C treatment component should be viewed as part of a continuum of mental health services that may benefit children and adolescents with disruptive behaviour problems and their families.

Additional care or treatment that may be offered to the children, adolescents and families involved with TAPP-C include the following:

• outpatient, day or residential mental health treatment for the child
• family therapy
• additional PMT
• additional child CBT and/or psychotherapy and/or
• medication.

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