Peer Pressure Reversal: An Adult Guide to Developing a Responsible Child

New Edition Includes:

A comprehensive lesson plan for teaching Peer Pressure Reversal to youth from ages 5–18 in a one-on-one situation by a parent or a counselor as well as a complete section on teaching it in the classroom.

25 new tips for teachers and parents on how to tone down society's negative impact on children.

Reinforcing skills, including disciplining the instigator of trouble, helping kids select appropriate friends, parent networking, and how to bolster self-esteem and good decision-making.

Special tips to simplify the skills for children as young as age five with age-appropriate practice exercises.

As a parent, educator, or professional helper working with youth, no doubt you have seen the amount of negative peer pressure that youth exert on each other. This companion book is the adult guide to How to Say No and Keep Your Friends and provides strategies for helping teens deal with peer pressure situations, from lesser problems like gossiping or going somewhere off-limits to more serious dares such as skipping school or drinking alcohol. Peer Pressure Reversal in Action!

Results of Peer Pressure Reversal Training at Webb Middle School, Garland, TX (1,060 students)

Referrals to the office for:

Fighting dropped 75%
Not following directions down 37.5%
Misbehavior on the bus declined 25%
Disruptive activity down 17.7%

Sharon Scott LLC is a licensed professional counselor and marriage and family therapist whose internationally recognized work has been making a difference in peoples' lives for thirty years. An accomplished training consultant, award-winning author, and global lecturer as well, she specializes in:

training programs and keynote addresses for schools, conferences, social service agencies, hospitals, law enforcement, volunteer, and religious organizations and

private counseling with two convenient office locations for individuals, families, couples, school-age children and teens. (*Note that this web site is basically about her training/consulting work so please go to the 'counseling' page for more information on her private practice*)

Among Sharon's many professional achievements is her PEER PRESSURE REVERSAL program--one of the most highly respected refusal skills programs for children and teens in the nation--which she has personally brought to over one million people across the U.S. and in Australia, Africa, Switzerland, Spain, Canada, Malaysia, Turkey, and Micronesia. Her nine widely acclaimed books include an elementary-series that she 'co-authored' with Nicholas, her savvy Cocker Spaniel! Her guide for teens, "How to Say No and Keep Your Friends, 2nd Edition," became a bestseller.

Prior to opening her company, LifeSkills for Positive Living, in 1980, Sharon served as director of the Dallas, Texas Police Department's First Offender Program which became a national model for delinquency prevention. She was also a social worker for Dallas County Department of Human Services counseling thousands of troubled families.

Sharon Scott has been honored with numerous awards including the prestigious 2001 "Molly Gerold Human Rights Award" given by the 6,000 member Texas Counseling Association and is the only three-time recipient of their "Professional Writing Award." A frequent TV and radio talk-show guest, she has appeared on CNN and Good Morning Australia and has been quoted by hundreds of media sources including 20/20, Good Housekeeping Magazine, Seventeen, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, Teen Magazine, the British Broadcasting Co., Working Mothers Magazine, Scholastic Choices, The Dallas Morning News, The London Times, and Redbook.

She is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and a past president of Northern Metro Counseling Association.