CBC Clinic Goals:

The Child Behavior Management Clinic offers services for children ages four to twelve with disruptive behavior problems, including deficits in attention, impulse control, compliance with directions from authority figures, or peer relationships.  A multi-modal treatment approach will be applied, including individual and group parent training, school consultation, and work with the child.  The goals of the CBC Clinic are:

1.  To provide state-of-the-art treatment for children with behavior management problems and their families; and

2.  to train graduate students in formal evaluation and evidence-based treatment of externalizing disorders among children; and

3.  to conduct research that will further general knowledge about behavior management problems among children and about the best ways to treat these.

Client Services Offered:

The CBC Clinic offers behavior modification treatments that have been shown through research to be effective for CBC and other disruptive behavior disorders of childhood.  These treatments include individual and group parent training, and school and/or pediatrician consultation.

1.  Parent Training is used to teach parents how to structure the home environment in a way that helps their child function better.  Once parents learn these skills, they can use their skills on a continuing basis to help their child.

2.  With the parents' permission and the teacher's agreement, School Consultation can be provided to assist teachers in structuring the school environment in a way that helps the child behave and perform better in that important setting.  This includes helping the teacher to set up and monitor simple behavior programs to increase the child's motivation and performance at school.

3.  When parents are interested in pursuing a medication trial to determine whether medication may augment the effectiveness of the behavioral treatment, Pediatrician Consultation may be provided.  If the child's pediatrician decides a trial is medically justified and agrees to collaborate with us, we can set up and coordinate a controlled trial to monitor how well the medication works for symptom reduction in the child.

Community Services Offered:

The CBC Clinic provides in-service training and educational workshops to schools, parent groups, mental health clinics, or professional groups on topics related to the assessment and treatment of childhood disorders.

Fees: Fees are determined on a sliding-scale basis according to income.

Staff: The CBC Clinic is directed by Elizabeth Akey, Ph.D., a visiting Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University and a local expert on CBC.  The clinicians who staff the clinic are trainees enrolled in the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology at Purdue who are supervised by Dr. Akey or other Purdue faculty.

How to Contact the CBC Clinic:

 If you are interested in receiving services at the CBC Clinic or in learning more about what is offered, please call (765) 494-6996 and specify that you are calling about CBC services.  You will be sent an information and screening packet to complete.  When we receive your completed screening packet, we will determine whether your child's problems can best be served by the CBC Clinic.  If so, we will call you to schedule a first appointment.  If not, we will provide an appropriate referral for you.

What are the Purdue Psychology Treatment and Research Clinics?

The Purdue Psychology Treatment and Research Clinics are psychology clinics specifically designed to meet the needs of the Lafayette and West Lafayette community and surrounding areas.  Our goal is to assist clients by providing quality assessment, treatment, and psycho-educational services. The Purdue Psychology Treatment and Research Clinics serve as a training and research facility for the Clinical Psychology program at Purdue University.  Staff members are qualified psychologists in-training who are supervised by faculty from the Clinical Psychology Program.

Who comes to the Purdue Psychology Treatment and Research Clinics and why?

Our services are available to any child or adult in the Lafayette and West Lafayette community and surrounding areas.  Our clients are treated by specialty clinics that provide state of the art treatment.  In addition to the CBC Clinic, these other clinics provide psychological services under the banner of the Purdue Psychology Treatment and Research Clinics:

• Adult Services Clinic
• Couples/Family Intervention Clinic
• Pervasive Problem-Solving Difficulties