The Right to Be Grown Up 7pk: Helping Parents Be Parents to Their Difficult Teens

by jerome-a-price-judith-margerum

Jerome Price and Judith Margerum have joined forces to bring together an essential model for helping parents to help themselves as parents. Therapists will find here a host of practical,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891944932
• ISBN13: 9781891944932
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Zeig, Tucker & Theisen
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.9" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Hope For Parents of Defiant Kids

(...)This is by far the best book I have ever seen on this subject. As a psychologist with many years of experience treating "out of control" adolescents and their overwhelmed parents, I can attest to the monumental challenges faced by the therapists who treat them. It is extremely difficult for a therapist to not fall into the same helplessness suffered by the parents of severely defiant children, when intervention after intervention fails--as they usually do with "traditional" approaches. This book offers a highly structured group program for these parents and provides the therapist with an incredibly detailed "instruction manual" for running the group session-by-session. Like the 1-2-3 Magic program that is so effective for younger children, the clear and relatively "simple" principles that make this program so workable for parents belie its underlying psychological sophistication. While the program appeals to parents on a common-sense basis, the well-educated therapist will appreciate the fact that it is informed by mountains of professional knowlege. Although considerable education is delivered in the process, the program's focus is on developing effective parenting skills rather than insight (which is of so little use with kids who are truly "out of control".)Is this program fool-proof? Of course not. It is best used by people who are comfortable taking a directive--though necessarily supportive--posture with clients . . . something the classroom format makes much more natural. Is this an equally good self-help book? No way. Should this program be used only by trained mental health professionals or, as the authors suggest, can it be equally effective in the hands of teachers and others experienced in this area? I'm not sure what to say about this one--it makes sense that it could, and surely a skilled layperson would use it far more effectively than an *inept* mental health professional; for that matter, a skilled layperson would surely be just as effective as a skilled mental health professional. Probably the best I can say is that I would not recommend it to just anyone and everyone who has an interest in helping parents and kids. These kids and parents are real tough customers. I can say, however, that anyone who already deals with this group would be much better equiped for the job with this program. Having a thorough understanding of the subject, and a great deal of experience with this population, I have to admit that I wish I had thought of this program myself. If it were mine, I'd double or triple the price (after all, it comes with parent workbooks), and offer a money-back guarantee. There would be very few--if any--returns.