Pathways to Change, Second Edition: Brief Therapy with Difficult Adolescents
This innovative, practical guide presents an effective brief therapy model for working with challenging adolescents and their families. It demonstrates powerful ways to help families gain new perspectives on longstanding problems and co-construct realistic, well-formulated goals, even when past treatment experiences have left them feeling demoralized. Solution-oriented techniques and strategies are augmented by ideas and findings from other therapeutic traditions, with a focus on engagement and relationship building. Illustrated with extensive clinical material, the book shows how to draw on each family’s strengths to collaboratively bring about significant behavioral change.
New to This Edition:
*Augments solution-oriented strategies with ideas and findings from other therapeutic traditions, with a heightened focus on engagement and relationship building.
*Chapters covering therapeutic improvisation and the creative use of self, and offering powerful ideas for working with involuntary and multistressed clients, including parents who are angry, pessimistic, laissez-faire, or psychiatrically impaired.
*A chapter presenting a “mini-manual” for conducting solution-oriented parenting groups.
This innovative, practical guide presents an effective brief therapy model for working with challenging adolescents and their families. It demonstrates powerful ways to help families gain new perspectives on longstanding problems and co-construct realistic, well-formulated goals, even when past treatment experiences have left them feeling demoralized. Solution-oriented techniques and strategies are augmented by ideas and findings from other therapeutic traditions, with a focus on engagement and relationship building. Illustrated with extensive clinical material, the book shows how to draw on each family’s strengths to collaboratively bring about significant behavioral change.
New to This Edition:
*Augments solution-oriented strategies with ideas and findings from other therapeutic traditions, with a heightened focus on engagement and relationship building.
*Chapters covering therapeutic improvisation and the creative use of self, and offering powerful ideas for working with involuntary and multistressed clients, including parents who are angry, pessimistic, laissez-faire, or psychiatrically impaired.
*A chapter presenting a “mini-manual” for conducting solution-oriented parenting groups.
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1-2-3 Magic – Managing difficult Behavior in Children 2-12 [VHS]
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- Managing difficult Behavior in Children 2-12
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1-2-3 Magic – Managing difficult Behavior in Children 2-12 [VHS] [VHS Tape]This 1990 production has been getting good words on Web parenting message boards and for good reason: it works. Dr. Thomas Phelan, a clinical psychologist, developed the program for his own children when they were young and in the thralls of hyperactivity and sibling rivalry. The two-hour show features his explanation of the program interspersed with dramatic scenarios and parent testimonials. The corny vignettes and repetitive testimonials are somewhat extraneous, but the nut of the information is invaluable. Phelan urges parents to get away from explaining everything to kids, who aren’t listening to you anyway, he says, but he’s not a spanking advocate either. His approach is rational and simple: counting and then time-out. You’ve done that, you say? Well, watch the tape and see what you’re doing wrong. His method has been honed by parents and teachers who have come back to him with refinements. These include ways to encourage kids to start good behaviors once the bad behaviors are under control. Phelan is personable and dryly funny (think parents as wild-animal trainers), and the absence of a hard- sell tone makes watching this production a pleasant experience. –Kimberly Heinrichs
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