Negotiating Parent-Adolescent Conflict
A Behavioral-Family Systems Approach
Arthur L. Robin and Sharon L. Foster
Paperback
Paperback
orderDecember 18, 2002
ISBN 9781572308572
Price: $42.00 338 Pages
Size: 6⅛" x 9¼"
Copyright Date: 1989
Parent-adolescent discord is often handled from a unitary perspective, whether the focus is on enhancing parenting skills, resolving conflicts in family relationships, or working to improve the behavior of the individual child. This important work shows the clinician how to incorporate all of these crucial elements into a single, research-based treatment program. Presented is the authors' influential integration of cognitive-behavioral constructs and family systems theory, grounded in consideration of adolescent developmental concerns. The book describes effective ways to conceptualize and assess the problems of embattled parents and teens; use assessment data in treatment planning; overcome resistance and other therapeutic hurdles; and implement carefully sequenced skills training, cognitive restructuring, and functional/structural interventions. The theoretical and empirical bases of the treatment approach are also discussed in depth.
“For the clinician or researcher who deals with the ever-growing population of families encountering adolescent runaway, conduct, and delinquency problems, this book is a must.”
—Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
“Work this rich in clinical impact with this kind of empirical support comes around only once every couple of years....Many families, clinicians, and researchers will benefit.”
—Child and Family Behavior Therapy
“Well written, engaging, and useful for many professionals at all levels of expertise.”
—Merrill-Palmer Quarterly
Table of Contents
1. Introduction2. Theoretical Orientation
3. Empirical Evaluation of Behavioral–Family Systems Theory
4. Assessment—Overview and Interviewing
5. Questionnaire and Observational Assessment
6. Conceptualizing and Integrating Assessment Data
7. Treatment—Overview and Problem-Solving Training
8. Communication Training
9. Cognitive Restructuring
10. Functional/Structural Interventions
11. Sequencing Intervention
12. Resistance
13. Case Studies
14. Treatment Outcome Research
15. Future Directions
Audience
Child and adolescent psychologists and psychiatrists, family therapists, and other mental health practitioners working with adolescents; researchers and students in these areas.Serves as a text in advanced undergraduate- or graduate-level courses in adolescent development, clinical child psychology, and family counseling and therapy.