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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8900835
EAN num: 9781572304406
ISBN number: 1572304405
Label: The Guilford Press
Manufacturer: The Guilford Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 250
Printing Date: March 12, 1999
Publishing house: The Guilford Press
Sale Popularity Level: 526848
Studio: The Guilford Press
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This authoritative manual presents an 18-step program designed both to teach parents the skills they need to manage difficult adolescent behavior and to improve family relationships overall. The very first nine steps of the program modify the approach presented in Russell A. Barkley's DEFIANT CHILDREN, SECOND EDITION, to focus on developmental concerns of adolescence. The authors delineate clear procedures for assessing defiance in teens and working with parents, alone or in groups, to reverse problem behavior. Steps 10 through 18 are conducted with parents and teenagers together, utilizing a proven family therapy model developed by Arthur L. Robin and Sharon Foster. Clinicians are shown how to help all family members learn to negotiate, communicate, and problem-solve more effectively, while facilitating adolescents' individuation and autonomy. Featuring a lay-flat binding for ease of photocopying, the book includes reproducible forms that enable clinicians to gauge the nature, diversity, and severity of parent/n-/adolescent conflicts; assess for oppositional defiant disorder (ODD); and evaluate parental psychological adjustment. Reproducible handouts for families reinforce crucial ideas and skills imparted in-session.
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This is a great resource for the practitioner in training. It's easy to use and helps you learn in-take process and differential diagnosis tools.
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Defiant Teens: A Clinician's Manual for Assessment and Family Intervention is a very practical book for clinician's who work with teens with behavior disorders. It combines the best elements of behavioral therapy without ignoring the crucial role the family plays in treatment.
The book begins by presenting a comprehensive model for teen behavior, which includes discusion of mental disorders, parenting, and developmental factors. Then it describes instructions for 18 structured sessions that are used to treat the family and adolescent. It includes handouts, which may be reproduced if you buy the book.
I have used this book in practice as a substance abuse counselour in a correctional facility and found it to be very useful. It is a valuable resource for anyone working with difficult to treat teens and their families.
The best part of this book is that it is written like a workbook. Unlike many books on the matter, it includes step-by-step instructions that are grounded in theory without putting you to sleep. The handouts and session descriptions can be adapted and added to a clinician's toolbox. I would recommend this book to anyone who treats adolescents.
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