Scott P. Sells – författare

"This book builds upon my early work and the work and others by offering a comprehensive guide to practitioners interested in facing and helping to heal trauma and manage the drama systemically with a special focus on children and adolescents. The FST Model is a contribution to the fields of trauma, family sciences, and human development practice." --Charles R. Figley, PhD; Kurzweg Chair in Disaster Mental Health at Tulane University in New Orleans

This is the first book that addresses trauma treatment for child and adolescents using a Family Systems Trauma (FST) model which goes beyond individual therapy to include the child and their entire family.

Co-written by a renowned family therapist who created the Parenting with Love and Limits® model, it delivers a research-based , step-by-step approach that incorporates the child’s immediate family along with their extended family to treat the traumatized child or adolescent.

Using a "stress chart," the child or adolescent''s trauma symptoms are quickly identified. This strategy guides therapists in accurately diagnosing root causes of the child''s trauma and culminates in the creation of co-created "wound playbooks" to heal trauma in both the child as well as other family members.

Additional helpful features include extensive case examples, a menu of trauma techniques, wound playbook examples, evaluation forms, client handouts, and other practical tools to provide the therapist with a complete guide to implementing this approach. Child and family therapists, social workers, mental health counselors, and psychologists working in a variety of settings will find this book a valuable resource.

Key Features:

An updated and expanded version of a title that has helped families tackle tough teenage behavior dynamics for twenty-five years Every teenager pushes limits-talks back, breaks curfew, or refuses to follow rules. But now, millions of teens are taking those behaviors to the extreme-disrupting families, damaging relationships, or showing aggression. If one of these teens is yours, you've likely lived through years of conflicting advice and quick fixes that don't last.Finally, a breakthrough guide.Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager is the fully updated and revised guide from a master therapist with decades of clinical experience-and a parent of two extreme teens. This new edition goes beyond surface behaviors to address the deeper emotional problems driving today's teens, including trauma, anxiety, grief, depression, and living life on a screen-driven world. With clear, step-by-step strategies, this book gives parents practical tools to reestablish authority and reclaim love-when nothing you've tried is working. Scott Sells, PhD, lays out eight proven strategies to help parents create lasting change with even the most difficult teen problems:1. Top ten reasons why teenagers get out of control 2. End button-pushing3. It takes a village: Mobilize your extended family4. How to write a contract that actually works5. Techniques to solve teenagers' extreme behavioral problems (disrespect, aggression, tech battles, lying, stealing, alcohol or drug use, running away, failing grades, etc.)6. Techniques to solve teenagers' extreme emotional problems (anxiety, depression, trauma, self-harm, threats of suicide, grief, self-harm, etc.)7. Troubleshooting and dress rehearsals8. Reclaiming love between you and your teenagerClear and practical, with hundreds of real-life solutions from families who have faced these same challenges, this book gives parents the tools they need to get their teen-and their family-back on track quickly.