[Download Now] Out of Control Teens: A Skills-Based Approach That Breaks Through Family Dysfunction to Create Lasting Change – Mary Nord Cook

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She is out of control. I don’t know what’s wrong with him. She won’t talk to me.

Parents of troubled teens are desperate for help when they reach your office. Parents are pleading with you to fix their child after months of conflict, disrespect and defiance.

You have tried individual therapy with the teen. It’s nearly impossible to create lasting change when the family dynamic is back to normal. A new approach will drill down to the root of the problem rather than treating symptoms.

The program will change the way you work with teens and families. This approach breaks the cycle of conflict and maladaptive behavior. You will be able to power your clients and families to make positive changes.

This evidence-based program contains practical, powerful strategies that bolster interpersonal skills within families and target a variety of problems families face, from covert conflict to full-blown, explosive hostility.

1. Articulate the developmental factors in adolescents that may serve as a barrier for achieving successful treatment outcomes.
2. Apply family-centered approaches for fostering empathic connections and building trust among clients and their families.
3. Implement clinical strategies for effectively engaging parents in the treatment process.
4. Utilize treatment techniques for promoting emotion regulation and communication skills in clients and their families.
5. Employ interventions that enhance conflict resolution skills and reinforce compliant behavior in adolescents.
6. Execute specific strategies that increase assertive communication by adolescent clients and their families.

Teens know everything. There are other challenges to effective treatment.

• Brains under construction: Developmental mismatches
• Do’s and Don’ts: Principles of parenting teens
• Transforming teen behavior requires transforming parent behavior
• Empirical evidence: Research, limitations and risks

There are 6 treatment components that set the stage for therapeutic success.

Cultivate Feelings Awareness among Teens and Families.

• Body scanning
• Feelings identification
• Healthy expression and management of emotions

Parent-teen trust and understanding can be improved by empath building.

• Empathy redefined
• 15 “Empathy Busters” to avoid
• Strategies that promote validation
  • ”Empathy Formulas”
  • ”Mirroring Stems”

Conflict resolution can be done with win-win ways.

• Problem-solving together
• The “5 D’s” of conflict resolution
• ”Everybody Wins” solutions

Teens are Hooked into Compliance with behavior contracts.

• Steps to foster teen “buy in”
• Ways to track and reinforce positive behavior
• Facilitate collaborative negotiation

Promoting healthy parent-teen conversations is the topic of communication.

• 4 Types of communication
• What to avoid: 7 “Cooperation Busters”
• Assertiveness Formula
• 9 “Cooperation Builders”

Change unhelpful thinking patterns is the topic of cognitive restructuring.

• Cognitive-Behavioral Triad
• Help teens and families avoid common “Thinking Traps”
• Critical thinking exercises to correct thinking errors

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