Your Defiant Teen, First Edition: 10 Steps to Resolve Conflict and Rebuild Your Relationship. This item is unavailable.Your Defiant Teen, First Edition: 10 Steps to Resolve Conflict and Rebuild Your Relationship

When teen behavior crosses the line, frazzled parents need a reliable source of expert advice to help them take the situation in hand. Now they have one. Russell A. Barkley and Arthur L. Robin - award-winning researchers and coauthors of a leading book on defiant teens for therapists - have created a clinically proven self-help program that parents can use to restore order and rebuild trust. Describing 10 simple steps that lead to better behavior, Your Defiant Teen demonstrates how to establish common ground, encourage mutual respect, and introduce cooperative problem solving - all without escalating the struggle for control. Much more than just a way to keep the peace, Drs. Barkley and Robin offer parents a means to teach their teenagers skills that will serve them well for a lifetime. Includes helpful reproducible checklists and forms.

Russell A. Barkley, PhD, is Research Professor of Psychiatry at the SUNY Upstate Medical University at Syracuse. Dr. Barkley has published numerous books and videos on child and adolescent psychology. He is a frequent lecturer who is widely cited in the national media and is a past president of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. His previous books include the bestsellers Taking Charge of ADHD and Your Defiant Child.

Arthur L. Robin, PhD, is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University, Director of Psychology Training at Children's Hospital of Michigan, and a practicing psychologist in Michigan with more than three decades of experience. He has written three additional books, including Defiant Teens with Dr. Barkley.

Christine M. Benton is a Chicago-based writer and editor. Her previous books with Dr. Barkley include Your Defiant Child.