The key treatment objectives of CARES are: (a) to enhance attention to critical facial cues signalling distress in
child, parents and others, to improve emotion recognition and labelling; (b) improve emotional understanding by linking emotion to context, and by identifying contexts and situations that
elicit child anger and frustration; (c) teach prosocial and empathic behaviour through social stories, parent modelling, and role play; (d) increase emotional labelling and prosocial behaviour through positive reinforcement; (e) and increase
child's frustration tolerance through modelling, role - playing, and reinforcing
child's use of learned cognitive - behavioural strategies to decrease the incidence of
aggressive behaviours.