Defiant Teens : A
Clinician's Manual for Assessment and Family Intervention
Russell A. Barkley, Gwenyth H. Edwards, and Arthur L. Robin |
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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 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. The manual's
utility is greatly enhanced by ready-to-photocopy forms that enable clinicians to gauge
the nature, diversity, and severity of parent adolescent conflicts; assess for
oppositional defiant disorder (ODD); and evaluate parental psychological adjustment. Also
included are reproducible handouts for families that reinforce crucial ideas and skills
imparted in-session.
198 Pages
Publication Date: February 1999
ORDER CODE: GP0440B
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