Parenting: Teaching Parents Strategies for Difficult Teens

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A. valuing the unique teen, building self-respect, and recognizing effort and improvement.  
B. 1. uncover the facts that are involved with both the teen and parent in the situation, 2. hear the teen’s viewpoint, 3. listen to reason, 4. dialogue, and 5. compromise.
C. whining and complaining; stubborn refusal; verbal abuse; threats of violence; and acts of violence.
D. Nurture; Intervention; and Talk Back.
E. discovering parental triggers; discovering teen triggers; and busting the trigger.
F. contemporary developmental pressures on the family, Other-Person-Centered Responding, and structure.
G. streamlining the problems; creating concrete rules; and creating a well-written consequence.
H.  Outside Looking In
I. Unmasking the purpose, talking back, and making the critic useless
J. Working with the School; Back to School; Positive Praise and Recognition through Role Playing.
K. hearing the internal voice, determining and recognizing situations when the voice is present, monitor the voice, and determine how the voice makes your client feel
L. Determining Frequency; Family Meeting; and The Alcohol Talk.
M. educating the parent; teen self-esteem; and internet activity.
N. Uncovering the Motives; Winning Cooperation; and Establishing Authority.

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A.  1) provide massive amounts of public education about the negative consequences of alcohol use before the age of 21; 2) criminalize and shame any youth or adult behavior that supports alcohol use before the age of 21; 3) expect that after turning 21 young adults will be able to quickly learn to use alcohol responsibly and be problem-free because the onset of use has been postponed.
B.  Azrin et al. demonstrated adolescent substance abuse was influenced by the way in which parents supported and rewarded adolescent behaviour.
C. (1) Antisocial behaviors (2) Sensation seeking (3) Social skills deficits (4) Attention seeking, and (5) Fire-safety skills
D. For young children at risk of disruptive behavior disorders, a natural environment in which children are interacting with others could provide a wealth of information about them. Not only can details pertaining to diagnosis be obtained, but the data collected may also determine which children would be successful in group therapy.
E.  Attachment processes through adolescence are distinguished by the growth of the child towards cognitive and physical maturity and the re-negotiation of family relationships towards greater reciprocity.
F.  "Sensory reinforcement controlled" describes those for whom the sensory aspects of the fire are sufficiently reinforcing for them to set fires frequently.
G.  Preschoolers' cognitive processes might not be developed enough to actively conceptualize and initiate self-modeled behavior.
H.  The survey data found fathers were less likely to see negative consequences in use of some drugs. Less than half of fathers report believing that if their child smokes marijuana, they will face consequences such as difficulty coping with life’s problems and getting along with family.
I.  A common thread among family interventions is that of improving communication and reducing conflict.
J.  Depression in the mother, along with mother "negativity" and father "negativity" and life stress
K.  Several studies find that male adolescents are more likely than females to have positive reactions to having sex. While the attitude change associated with first sex may operate in either direction, it seems most likely that it will tend toward more permissive postsex attitudes, especially for males.
L.  Pathological firesetting is likely to continue if the underlying motivations or reinforcers are not specifically identified and treated.