Explore ways of enhancing parents’ ability to find their authentic voice and assert a shaping influence in their children’s lives by:

Understanding the reluctance of post-boomer parents to assert their authority.
Making explicit the unstated parental fears that often disempower parents and enable their kids to hold them hostage.
Bringing the child’s Second Family-their network of significant friendships-into the therapy room.
Combating parental isolation through facilitating home-school partnerships and communication among parents.
Helping parents assert genuine authority through “I Mean It” moments in which they express themselves as three-dimensional human beings.

OBJECTIVES

Discuss and demonstrate concrete techniques to increase parental authority--even when teens refuse treatment.

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