Negotiating Parent-Adolescent Conflict: A Behavioral-Family Systems Approach

by Arthur L. Robin PhD, Sharon L. Foster PhD

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781572308572
Publisher:	Guilford Publications, Inc.
Publication date:	12/18/2002
Series:	The Guilford Family Therapy Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Arthur L. Robin, PhD, is Director of Psychology Training at Children's Hospital of Michigan and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University. Dr. Robin is a practicing psychologist with more than 40 years of clinical experience.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Orientation
3. Empirical Evaluation of Behavioral/n-/Family Systems Theory
4. Assessment/m-/Overview and Interviewing
5. Questionnaire and Observational Assessment
6. Conceptualizing and Integrating Assessment Data
7. Treatment/m-/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

Interviews

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.

Editorial Reviews

"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

Following a thorough theoretical presentation, the volume includes chapters on interviews, questionnaires, and observational assessment, as well as conceptualizing and integrating assessment data. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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