1-DAY INTENSIVE
Tough Teens, Tough Therapy
Friday, February 4, 2011
Presenter:
Jerome A. Price, M.A., is the co-director and founder of the Michigan Family Institute. A Regional Faculty Member for the Family Therapy Institute of Washington, D.C. until it’s closing, he is a well known supervisor and brief therapist consulting for mental health centers, hospital medical and psychiatric staffs and outpatient programs throughout the U.S. and Canada.
His articles on many aspects of individual, marital and family treatment have been published in a variety of journals and therapy publications as well as being contributing author to a number of professional books and textbooks on family therapy. Price is the author of the book, Power and Compassion: Working with difficult adolescents and abused parents (Guilford, 1996), and co-author of Defusing the High Conflict Divorce (Impact, 2007) and the upcoming book for divorced parents, Take Control of Your Divorce: A strategy guide for reducing the conflict in your divorce (Impact, in press).
Price’s workshops and trainings on the treatment of adolescents, marriages and families have been enthusiastically received throughout the U.S. and Canada, in Germany and New Zealand. He is an Approved Supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
Course Description
Out-of-control adolescents and pre-adolescents are often brought in for therapy by parents who act like weary war veterans. The greatest roadblocks to helping these families are the parents’ overwhelming sense of helplessness and the teenagers’ sense of entitled empowerment. This workshop, informed by Jerome Price’s book, Power and Compassion: Working with difficult adolescents and abused parents and over thirty years of practice treating difficult adolescents, will offer strategies for motivating parents to take effective action. It will expand the therapist’s range of interventions that can empower parents and focus on how to disrupt the painful aggressive emotional dilemmas of teenagers. Price’s step-by-step guidelines will help professionals to set clear goals, bolster the parents’ capacity to set limits, help distressed youths to reclaim their childhoods and defuse the immediate crisis so that underlying family dynamics can be addressed.
In this solid no-nonsense workshop, Jerome Price lays the groundwork for his approach by demonstrating the need for both kindness and authority when working with youthful aggression.
Participants will learn:
-The principles of Brief Therapy with aggressive adolescents.
-To accurately assess the level of danger and need for protection.
-To assess and intervene in family and parental patterns that support aggression.
-To reverse the cycle of mutual intimidation by adults and adolescents.
- Specific interventions for helping parents regain the benevolent leadership of their families.
-To help teenagers relinquish painful control and enjoy the remainder of their youth.
-Specific strategies for change including, The Secret Weapon, The Tao Strategy, and The Pawnbroker.
This workshop material will include videotaped examples of Jerome Price’s work with adolescents.
Quotes from past evaluations on this workshop:
“Dynamic excellent speaker. The use of video enhances the audiences overall understanding-nice to have practical information to take back to the workplace.”
“Very thought provoking, challenging material. Nice mix of theoretical and practical.”
“Jerry Price is excellent – much humor and very down-to-earth.”
“The ideas were presented clearly with humor and I feel as if the therapeutic techniques presented are things that I could actually use in my practice.”
Workshop Schedule
9:00-9:30 Introduction and Overview
9:30-10:30 Brief Directive Therapy with Aggressive Adolescents: The Basic Principles
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Assessing Aggressiveness Accurately and Beginning Intervention. The six levels – Per vs. Compassion – Communication flow – Reactivity patterns.
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Intervening in Parental Apathy and Explosiveness/Intervening with Adolescent Domination, Passivity and Psychiatric Symptoms.
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-4:00 Specific Strategies for Change: The Secret Weapon Strategy-The Tao Strategy-The Pawnbroker.
Hours:
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
6 Continuing Education Credits
MRI is approved to provide continuing education for MFT's and/or LCSW's as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #PCE 14. MRI is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. MRI maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.
COST: $200
