Does your teen do any of the following: yell, steal, lie, fail to complete routine chores, destroy property, argue, annoy/humiliate, ignore requests, tantrum, talk back, swear, etc.?

Ages: 12-17 year-olds

Goals:

• Improve parental management skills and competence in dealing with teen behavior problems, particularly noncompliant or defiant behavior
• Increase parental knowledge of the causes of defiant behavior in adolescents and the principles and concepts underlying the social learning of such behavior
• Improve teen cooperation with parental requests, directives, and rules
• Increase family harmony
• Increase both parental and teen use of problem-solving skills and positive communication styles during problem-focused discussions and interactions that involve the teen
• Alter the teen’s or the parents’ unreasonable beliefs

Groups will meet 90 minutes for 9 weeks and will cover the following topics:

• Discussion of ADHD and ODD
• Principles of Behavior Management
• Developing Positive Attention
• Developing Parental Attending Skills
• Establishing a Behavioral Contract
• Using Response Cost
• Grounding
• School Advocacy
• Problem-Solving Communication Training
• Dealing with Unreasonable Beliefs and Expectations

There will be a booster session and follow-up meetings.