Treating the Tough Adolescent: A Family-Based, Step-by-Step Guide - Hardcover

Sells, Scott P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1572304227 ISBN 13: 9781572304222

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1998

Synopsis

This book illuminates the causes of severe adolescent behavioral problems and presents a research-based, 15-step model for helping families bring about meaningful change. Incorporating structural and strategic principles, the author's cohesive approach focuses on setting clear rules and consequences; changing the mood and direction of confrontations; neutralizing such problem behaviors as disrespect, truancy, running away, violence, and threats of suicide; and restoring positive, nurturing family relationships. Special treatment issues covered include adolescent substance abuse and managing problems that arise in single-parent and divorced families, as well as ways to collaborate effectively with outside systems. Featuring a wealth of illustrative case examples, this is an indispensable clinical guidebook and text.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book is a gem. Sells provides front-line clinicians with a step-by-step road map for doing effective family therapy with difficult adolescents. If you wish to know what an advanced structural-strategic family therapy model looks like, read this book (Matthew D. Selekman, MSW, Response Center, Skokie, IL)

About the Author:

Scott P. Sells, PhD, is currently Professor of Social Work at Savannah State University and Clinical Director of the Savannah Family Institute. He has treated more than 800 difficult children and adolescents, has spoken nationally on this topic, and has published a number of related journal articles. His 6-week educational program for parents of difficult children and teenagers, Parenting With Love and Limits(TM), has been adopted as a standard model in Virginia; Ohio; and Savannah, Georgia. His website is at: www.difficult.net.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1572304227
• ISBN 13: 9781572304222
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320