Parents and Adolescents Living Together, Part 1: The Basics (Parents & Adolescents Living Together) [Paperback]

Gerald R. Patterson (Author), Marion S. Forgatch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1987 | ISBN-10: 0916154165 | ISBN-13: 978-0916154165

Provides parents with the skills they need to survive the teenage years. Shows how to apply common-sense techniques to prevent problems and provide support for growth and development. Helps achieve a good balance between protecting adolescents from serious trouble, while giving them enough freedom to try out new experiences.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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"This two-part handbook on living with a teenager is divided between The Basics and Family Problem Solving. The former analyzes the psychology of family units and obstacles to adolescent compliance, guides parents toward making helpful requests and provides a system of monitoring and modeling appropriate behavior using printed dialogues." --Youth Today --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Gerald R. Patterson, Ph.D, is the founder of the Oregon Social Learning Center in Eugene, where he continues his distinguished career as a research scientist and principal investigator. He has devoted more than 40 years to the study of processes that disrupt family functioning and the development of a data-based theory, know as "coercion theory," that explains these processes. Dr. Patterson has published numerous scientific articles, book chapters, and is the author of two other best-selling parenting manuals: Living with Children and Families.

Marion S. Forgatch, Ph.D., is a senior scientist and principal investigator at the Oregon Social Leaning Center, where she has assumed a major role in dissemination research. The focus of this new area of study is on adapting parent-management training strategies to mental health delivery systems. Dr. Forgatch has also designed and tested intervention programs for single mothers and stepparent families. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 286 pages
• Publisher: Castalia Pub Co (June 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916154165
• ISBN-13: 978-0916154165
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #913,570 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Improve your parenting skills; Improve your child's behavior, May 17, 2000

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M. Coyne (Encinitas, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Parents and Adolescents Living Together, Part 1: The Basics (Parents & Adolescents Living Together) (Paperback)

Gerald Paterson and Marion Forgatch provide practical, useful and effective suggestions on how to improve your parenting skills and thereby improve the behavior of your children. Replace negative, coercive parent/child interactions with more positive, reciprocal interactions. Volume I covers basic family managment skills: how to give effecitve instructions, how to set up household rules, how to design and implement a basic point system and so on. Part 1 teaches parents how to respond to specific adolescent behaviors and establish consequences that result in changes in their child's behavior. The principles in this book work well with kids aged 8 through 16. Some suggestions may not be as helpful for older teens, 17-18 years old. It's better if you read the book now, when your child is 8,9, or 10 than wait until your child is 17. Buy both volumes 1 and 2. Volume 2 covers Communication Skills, Problem Solving, Sex, Drugs, and Alcohol, School Problems and more. The two books are an excellent resource for child counselors and family therapists.

5.0 out of 5 stars Parents And Adolescents Living Together: The Basics, July 19, 2007

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Stanley Star (Highland Utah) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Parents And Adolescents Living Together: Part 1, The Basics (Paperback)

This book is a powerful tool for parents in managing a family. I have found that it's concepts apply to all members of the family, not just teens. It is well written.