You’ve tried individual therapy with the teen, even making a little progress along the way. But week after week they return to a dysfunctional family dynamic, making it nearly impossible to create lasting change!
Mary Nord Cook – Out of Control Teens
“She’s out of control!”
“I don’t know what’s wrong with him!”
“She won’t talk to me.”
By the time they reach your office, parents of troubled teens are desperate for help. After months of engulfment in a vortex of conflict, disrespect and defiance, these parents are pleading with you to “fix my kid.”
You’ve tried individual therapy with the teen, even making a little progress along the way. But week after week they return to a dysfunctional family dynamic, making it nearly impossible to create lasting change! You need a new approach – one that will drill down to the root of problem rather than treating surface level symptoms.
Dr. Nord Cook’s innovative, comprehensive program will transform the way you work with teens and families. Backed by solid research, this approach breaks the cycle of conflict and maladaptive behavior. You will feel armed to EMPOWER your clients and families to make positive changes that endure!
Loaded with experiential teaching methods, this evidence-based program contains practical, powerful strategies that bolster interpersonal skills within families and target a myriad of problems families face, from covert conflict to full-blown, explosive hostility.
Articulate the developmental factors in adolescents that may serve as a barrier for achieving successful treatment outcomes.
Apply family-centered approaches for fostering empathic connections and building trust among clients and their families.
Implement clinical strategies for effectively engaging parents in the treatment process.
Utilize treatment techniques for promoting emotion regulation and communication skills in clients and their families.
Employ interventions that enhance conflict resolution skills and reinforce compliant behavior in adolescents.
Execute specific strategies that increase assertive communication by adolescent clients and their families.
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Teens Know Everything! (And 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
Family Skill Building Essentials: 6 Treatment Components That Set the Stage for Therapeutic Success
Emotion Regulation: Cultivate Feelings Awareness Among Teens and Families
Body scanning
Feelings identification
Healthy expression and management of emotions
Empathy Building: Improve Parent-Teen Trust and Understanding
Empathy redefined
15 “Empathy Busters” to avoid
Strategies that promote validation
”Empathy Formulas”
”Mirroring Stems”
Conflict Resolution: Guide Families with Win-Win Ways that Work
Problem-solving together
The “5 D’s” of conflict resolution
”Everybody Wins” solutions
Behavior Contracts: Hook Teens into Compliance
Steps to foster teen “buy in”
Ways to track and reinforce positive behavior
Facilitate collaborative negotiation
Communication: Promote Healthy Parent-Teen Conversations
4 Types of communication
What to avoid: 7 “Cooperation Busters”
Assertiveness Formula
9 “Cooperation Builders”
Cognitive Restructuring: Change Unhelpful Thinking Patterns
Cognitive-Behavioral Triad
Help teens and families avoid common “Thinking Traps”
Critical thinking exercises to correct thinking errors
