Stop Negotiating with Your Teen: Strategies for Parenting Your Angry, Manipulative, Moody, or Depressed Adolescent

Book Description
A psychologist offers peace-making strategies for parents who don't know where to turn.

The sullen, withdrawn, sarcastic teenager. The defensive, wary, and helpless parent. This book builds a bridge between the two sides--with practical and supportive advice on how to:

* Contain conflicts before they escalate into violence
* Break through the teen's verbal intimidation
* Avoid futile arguments
* Turn confrontation into communication
* Stand firm against teen rage
* Manage teen manipulation
* Build the teen's self-esteem
* Talk to teens when no one knows what to say

For ever parent who's screamed, what am I going to do with you?, this book finally provides the answer.

About the Author
Janet Sasson Edgette has been a practicing clinical psychologist for the last fifteen years, providing services to children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. She speaks nationally to mental health professionals on adolescent therapy, and has written for several professional publications including Family Therapy Networker.


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Is your teenager sullen, withdrawn, sarcastic, belligerent, and unmanageable? Are you defensive, wary, bewildered, ineffectual, and helpless? It's time to stop being held hostage to your adolescent's behavior. It's time to start effectively communicating with your teen. It's time to become an active, confident, successful parent so you can raise your child to be a healthy, responsible adult. Drawing on over fifteen years of clinical experience and her work with hundreds of families, Dr. Edgette offers practical and supportive advice on how to:


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