Defiant Teens
A Clinician's Manual for Assessment and Family Intervention
Russell A. Barkley, Gwenyth H. Edwards, and Arthur L. Robin
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.
Your Photocopy Rights: The Publisher grants individual book purchasers
nonassignable permission to reproduce the handouts and forms in this book
for clinical use with their clients.
