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Most parents will experience the adolescent years as if they are living with someone other than the child they have come to know over the years. While some of this is expected and considered normal, sometimes adolescents can take this behavior a few steps farther.
Adolescence is a time for normal exploration of the self and of new ideas. This requires us to "individualize" from our parents and can be the cause of most of the conflicts in the home if it happens to aggressively, too quickly or in a family that won't allow it.
The Parent Project™ curriculum was designed by three Southern California professionals, a policeman, teacher and a psychologist who responded to the need of the many self-destructive families who found themselves with unhappy lives and their children in the juvenile justice system.
This parenting technique relies heavily on the recognition of positive behaviors also found in the Parent Child Interaction Therapy and provides the necessary structure for adolescents who act out aggressively or who are self-destructive.
Parents will learn how to:
- Effectively "ground" kids
- Stop out-of-control and harmful behaviors
- Provide loving and consistent containment for unwanted behaviors in the future
- Never argue with kids again
- Prepare for confrontations so they are effective and resolved
- Reconnect with kids while they become functioning adults
