Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager: 8 Strategies to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love (Revised Edition)

An updated and expanded version of a title that has helped families tackle tough teenage behavior dynamics for twenty-five years

Every teenager rebels against authority at some point--talks back, breaks curfew, or disobeys. But literally millions of teens take their rebellion to a point where it disrupts their families and endangers their own futures or even their lives. This breakthrough guide, from a master therapist who has decades of clinical experience, with a new emphasis on the conditions facing modern teenagers, such as anxiety and lives lived on screens, lays out the eight steps to positive, permanent change for teenagers and their families:

1. Top ten reasons why teenagers get out of control
2. End button-pushing
3. It takes a village: Mobilize your extended family
4. How to write a contract that actually works
5. Techniques to solve teenagers’ extreme behavioral problems
6. Techniques to solve teenagers' extreme emotional problems
7. Troubleshooting and dress rehearsals
8. Reclaiming love between you and your teenager

Clear, compassionate, and packed with hundreds of real-life solutions from families who have been there, Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager gives parents the tools they need to turn their teenagers lives around for good.

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Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager: 8 Strategies to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love (Revised Edition)

An updated and expanded version of a title that has helped families tackle tough teenage behavior dynamics for twenty-five years

Every teenager rebels against authority at some point--talks back, breaks curfew, or disobeys. But literally millions of teens take their rebellion to a point where it disrupts their families and endangers their own futures or even their lives. This breakthrough guide, from a master therapist who has decades of clinical experience, with a new emphasis on the conditions facing modern teenagers, such as anxiety and lives lived on screens, lays out the eight steps to positive, permanent change for teenagers and their families:

1. Top ten reasons why teenagers get out of control
2. End button-pushing
3. It takes a village: Mobilize your extended family
4. How to write a contract that actually works
5. Techniques to solve teenagers’ extreme behavioral problems
6. Techniques to solve teenagers' extreme emotional problems
7. Troubleshooting and dress rehearsals
8. Reclaiming love between you and your teenager

Clear, compassionate, and packed with hundreds of real-life solutions from families who have been there, Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager gives parents the tools they need to turn their teenagers lives around for good.

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Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager: 8 Strategies to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love (Revised Edition)

Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager: 8 Strategies to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love (Revised Edition)

by Scott P. Sells
Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager: 8 Strategies to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love (Revised Edition)

Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager: 8 Strategies to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love (Revised Edition)

by Scott P. Sells

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An updated and expanded version of a title that has helped families tackle tough teenage behavior dynamics for twenty-five years

Every teenager rebels against authority at some point--talks back, breaks curfew, or disobeys. But literally millions of teens take their rebellion to a point where it disrupts their families and endangers their own futures or even their lives. This breakthrough guide, from a master therapist who has decades of clinical experience, with a new emphasis on the conditions facing modern teenagers, such as anxiety and lives lived on screens, lays out the eight steps to positive, permanent change for teenagers and their families:

1. Top ten reasons why teenagers get out of control
2. End button-pushing
3. It takes a village: Mobilize your extended family
4. How to write a contract that actually works
5. Techniques to solve teenagers’ extreme behavioral problems
6. Techniques to solve teenagers' extreme emotional problems
7. Troubleshooting and dress rehearsals
8. Reclaiming love between you and your teenager

Clear, compassionate, and packed with hundreds of real-life solutions from families who have been there, Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager gives parents the tools they need to turn their teenagers lives around for good.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781250392107
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/18/2026
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

SCOTT P. SELLS, PhD, is the founder of the Family Trauma Institute and developer of the Family Systems Trauma (FST) model. He has worked with traumatized children, adolescents, and their families over the past thirty years, and is the author of three books including the bestselling Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teen.

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