Partners for Collaborative Solutions
Bringing Out the Best in Your Children and Teens:
A Solution-Oriented Parenting Approach
Children and teens today are faced with many challenges and choices that can contribute to added stress and conflict in their relationships with their parents. It is crucial that parents are flexible, keep the lines of communication open, and maintain their sense of humor. In this “hands on” presentation, parents will learn an upbeat and strengths-based parenting approach that can gain their children’s and teens’ cooperation, accentuate their talents and responsible behaviors, and rapidly resolve their difficulties.
Parents will leave this presentation armed with the following effective parenting tools:
- Speaking the language of change to foster cooperative behavior
- Changing your viewing to open the door for multiple parenting solutions
- Tapping your children’s and teens’ strengths and resources to rapidly resolve their difficulties
- Positive consequences as a self-esteem building alternative topunishment
- “Out-of-the-box” effective parenting strategies for rapidlyaltering the most challenging of child and adolescent behavior problems
This presentation will be highly interactive and parents will have ample opportunities to ask questions and present some of the challenges they currently face with their children and teens.
Matthew’s book Pathways to Change: Brief Therapy with Difficult Adolescents, Second Edition was just published in Korean. A copy was presented to me at my workshop in Seoul, which was hosted by the Korean Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association.
