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Reading List for Parents of Teens

Back in Control: How to Get Your Children to Behave - Gregory Bodenhame
Back in Control is based on a highly successful program that has helped thousands of parents regain control over their children. Without compromising your values away or kicking the kids out of the house, it offers you the simplest, most effective method of childhood discipline to date. It presents a three-step formula that is perfect for virtually any adult wanting to control children's misbehavior.

How to Deal With Your Acting-Up Teenager - Robert T. Bayard, Jean Bayard
"An outstandingly courageous, honest and original approach to teenage acting-out. This book might save your family's sanity. " --Louise Bates Ames, Gesell Institute of Human Development

Teens in Turmoil: A Path to Change for Parents, Adolescents, and Their Families Carol Maxym, Ph.D.
This book offers practical guidance for parents of teens who are manipulating the family and refusing to live by your rules.

Choices and Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs - Dick Schaefer
What to do when a teenager uses alcohol/drugs telling kids who are using alcohol or other drugs to just say no isn't enough; the adults in their lives need to take action. Describes a practical, proven step-by-step intervention system that anyone can use to stop a teens harmful involvement with alcohol and other drugs and start him or her on the road to a richer, fuller life.

Parents Teens and Boundaries: How to Draw the Line - Jane Bluestein
Practical sense is the overall theme to this book. Parents will enjoy the style with which it is written and be able to put its parenting tips to use right away.

Uncommon Sense for Parents With Teenagers - Michael Riera
This guide is more for the parent of teenagers who are not already in trouble. It gives a different perspective on adolescents that many parents will appreciate.

How to Keep Your Teenager Out of Trouble and What to Do If You Can't - Dr. Neil I. Bernstein
Written by a clinical psychologist who's spent more than two decades bringing families back from the brink, Dr. Neil I. Bernstein knows how to help parents and teens successfully navigate these difficult and trying years. Thoughtful, clear-eyed, comprehensive and refreshingly free of jargon, this book helps parents identify whether their teens are exhibiting typical behavior-such as locking themselves in their room for hours-or are exhibiting real danger signs, such as being secretive, despondent, or constantly angry.


Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? : A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager - Anthony E. Wolf
Full of insight and humor, but refreshingly nonjudgmental, this book offers every parent a new perspective on his/her teenager. Dr. Wolf doesn't simply give a blueprint of today's teenager; he examines the issues that confront parents and shows why girls and boys act so differently during this time.

 

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