I acutally saw this episode of Dr. Phil...it was called "Brat Camp" and the situation with this mother and son was very sad. They had lost their daughter (sister to the son)a few years before and were so overcome with grief that they take it out on the son (the one slapping the mom). I am a mom of 3 kids and believe me I would go balistic if any one of my kids ever even attempted to slap me, but there was more to this story then you are seeing in this clip. In the show there wre other families and it actually ended up being the parents that needed to do things different in their parenting skills and Dr. Phil was coaching them and they were actually a group of good kids.