Negotiating Parent-Adolescent Conflict A Behavioral-Family Systems Approach

by Robin, Arthur L.; Foster, Sharon L.

• ISBN13: 9781572308572
• ISBN10: 1572308575
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-18
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Parent-adolescent discord is often handled from a unitary perspective, whether the focus is on enhancing parenting skills, resolving conflicts in family relationships, or working to improve the behavior of the individual child. This important work shows the clinician how to incorporate all of these crucial elements into a single, research-based treatment program. Presented is the authors' influential integration of cognitive-behavioral constructs and family systems theory, grounded in consideration of adolescent developmental concerns. The book describes effective ways to conceptualize and assess the problems of embattled parents and teens; use assessment data in treatment planning; overcome resistance and other therapeutic hurdles; and implement carefully sequenced skills training, cognitive restructuring, and functional/structural interventions. The theoretical and empirical bases of the treatment approach are also discussed in depth.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Theoretical Orientation

Empirical Evaluation of Behavioral/n-/Family Systems Theory

Assessment/m-/Overview and Interviewing

Questionnaire and Observational Assessment

Conceptualizing and Integrating Assessment Data

Treatment/m-/Overview and Problem-Solving Training

Communication Training

Cognitive Restructuring

Functional/Structural Interventions

Sequencing Intervention

Resistance

Case Studies

Treatment Outcome Research

Future Directions

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