Improving Parent-Adolescent Relationships |
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by Dr. Darrell Burnett
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Improving Parent-Adolescent Relationships |
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"I was delighted to see an emphasis in the clinician's guidebook on improving communications, problem solving, and the reciprocity through contracting. The methods build on two decades of research that have validated his techniques... The step-by-step and prescriptive approach will permit a wide range of practitioners to deliver state-of-the-art techniques with fidelity."
Robert Paul Liberman, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Clinical Research center, UCLA School of Medicine.
"Extremely practical, useful ways of improving parent-adolescent relationships!"
Irene Goldenberg, Ph.D. Acting Chief: Medical Psychology, UCLA, Neuropsychiatric
Institute.
"For therapists, for parents tearing their hair out, and for the adolescents who know it doesn't help to tear hair--relief for everyone! An extremely well organized step-by-step approach, with a text for the Leader that is top notch, and teachable."
George Sargent, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist, Director, The Family Center, Vista, CA.
"Good, solid material. An
excellent resource for parent-teen communications. I plan on using it."
Jim Burns, President National Institute of Youth Ministry, San Clemente, CA.
Dr. Darrell Burnett, clinical psychologist, certified group psychotherapist, has over 15 years of hands-on experience in running Multifamily Groups for parents and teenagers together, in in-patient, day care, outpatient, and aftercare settings. He has published a 15 session program: Improving Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Learning Activities for Parents and Adolescents, complete with a Leader Manual and a Participant Workbook.
Using a structured, skills training approach, Dr. Burnett offers specific, practical procedures for working with parents and adolescents in the same room at the same time, in a group or with individual families.
The program covers three major areas of problems common to parent-adolescent relationships:
The social perception exercises allow the parents and teens to see how close or how far away they are in the way they see each other, in the areas of personal traits, family communications, and values. Family members are taught to keep their perceptions based upon current behaviors. The communication exercises delineate styles of communication between parents and teens, with an emphasis upon assertive communications, using a scoring grid while discussing positive and negative feelings, including mutual empathy exercises. The Behavior Management exercises discuss the importance of understanding the relationship between behaviors and consequences, the importance of specificity in behavioral expectations of each other, and the importance of the consistent application of consequences, ending with a sample Family Behavior Contracting exercise.
Dr. Burnett has presented his program at professional conferences of the American Psychological Association, California Psychological Association, California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and the American Association of Christian Counselors.
| Manual: Provides goals, background information, and step-by-step procedures for each of the 15 learning activities. (134 pages) $21.95 (not available through FUNAGAIN PRESS. Available through publisher (Taylor and Francis, Inc.) at 1-800-634-7064, or AMAZON.COM |
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| Workbook: Contains forms which are to be completed during the learning activities. Provides questions and concepts with space for recording answers and other comments. (102 pages) $16.95 (not available through FUNAGAIN PRESS. Available through publisher (Taylor and Francis, Inc.) at 1-800-634-7064, or AMAZON.COM |
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Raising Responsible Kids: 5 Steps for Parents |
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"I didn't do it!" "Nobody saw me do it!" "You can't prove anything!" - Bart Simpson
Tired of people claiming to be "victims" every time someone confronts them for an antisocial behavior?
Tired of people constantly coming up with excuses, and not being accountable or responsible for their actions?
It's one thing for kids to react like Bart Simpson, the TV cartoon character quoted above, when getting into trouble. But in recent times we're seeing adults acting the same way, spending all their energy trying to pass the blame rather than accept the consequences for their actions.
Dr. Darrell Burnett, clinical child psychologist, father of three, with 20 years of private practice with children, adolescents, and families, has a central belief: If you want responsible adults, start by developing responsible kids!
The dictionary defines responsible as "accountable, liable, able to accept consequences for one's behavior." As a lecturer and author on the topic of positive parenting, Dr. Burnett has compiled a 30 page booklet and an accompanying 70 minute audio tape recording of one of his live workshops, Raising Responsible Kids: 5 Steps for Parents. Dr. Burnett's five practical, common sense steps for parents offer a blueprint for raising kids who are responsible, and able to handle consequences of their own actions.
- be consistent;
- say what you mean/ mean what you say;
- don't rescue;
- don't give in;
- look for the positives.
"The booklet is easy to read, and the audio tape captures his upbeat, humorous, hands-on approach with lots of examples and audience participation" - PTA parent
Raising Responsible Kids: 5 Steps for Parents - 70 minute audio tape recording of a live parenting workshop, along with a 27 page booklet. $12.95
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Parents, Kids, and Self Esteem: 15 Ways to Help Kids Like Themselves. |
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The direction of children's self esteem can be heavily determined by what they hear their parents say to them and about them. - Proverb
Dr. Darrell Burnett, clinical child psychologist, father of three, has over 20 years of private practice with children, adolescents, and families, emphasizing positive parenting. In that time he has noticed a common thread running through the lives of troubled youths: low self esteem. Drawing from his observations of what was missing in the family lives of the kids with low self esteem, Dr. Burnett has put together a set of guidelines for parents, which can be used as a checklist to help ensure that the essentials for promoting self esteem are not missing in their children's family life.
In this easy-to-read 30 page booklet, and an easy-to-follow audio tape, Parents, Kids, & Self Esteem: 15 Ways to Help Kids Like Themselves, Dr. Burnett discusses:
- Four cornerstones of self esteem
- a sense of belonging
- a sense of worthiness
- a sense of dignity
- a sense of control
- 15 Parent Guidelines for building a child's self esteem:
- Be positive.
- Urge creativity.
- Involve yourself.
- Listen without attacking.
- Define rules, limits, and consequences.
- Set a good example.
- Express your values.
- Laugh and play.
- Focus on family time.
- Emphasize.
- Show your love.
- Teach responsibility.
- Expect only what is reasonable.
- Encourage time and money management.
- Monitor TV
In this 60 minute audio tape seminar and accompanying 30 page booklet, Dr. Burnett discusses the concept of self esteem, the four cornerstones of self esteem, and 15 specific ways for parents to help promote self esteem in their children. $12.95