 | Unhappy Teenagers: A Way for Parents and Teachers to Reach Them |
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The bestselling author of Choice Theory and Reality Therapy offers a powerful approach for helping troubled teens.
During his decades-long career as a therapist, Dr. William Glasser has often counseled parents and teenagers, healing shattered families and changing lives with his advice. Now, in his first book on the lessons he has learned, he asks parents to reject the "common sense" that tells them to "lay down the law" by grounding teens, or to try to coerce them into changing their behavior. These strategies have never worked, asserts Dr. Glasser, and never will. Instead he offers a different approach based upon Choice Theory.
Glasser spells out the seven deadly habits parents practice, and then shows them how to accomplish goals by changing their own behavior. Most important, however, in Unhappy Teenagers, Dr. Glasser provides a groundbreaking method that all parents can use with confidence and love to keep a strong relationship with their child.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #207385 in Books
- Published on: 2002-05-15
- Released on: 2002-04-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .76" h x 5.74" w x 8.60" l, .78 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 198 pages
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Glasser, a psychiatrist and the author of Choice Theory (1998), offers advice on how to apply that theory to dysfunctional relationships between parents and troubled teens, noting that while parents can't control the child's actions, they can control their own. By disconnecting from knee-jerk reactions, parents can regain control of the relationship and help their teen through crisis periods. Glasser outlines seven deadly habits many parents practice in reaction to teens: criticizing, blaming, complaining, nagging, threatening, punishing, and rewarding to control. He offers examples from his practice, re-creating conversations with parents and teens to demonstrate a range of problems--disrespect toward parents, failure in school, risky behavior with sex and drugs--and how parents can apply choice theory in dealing with the teen. The therapy is not a cure-all, and Glasser concedes that what he advises is often contrary to commonsense responses. Parents need to change patterns that seem natural but don't yield positive results, for example, continued lecturing and escalating restrictions. A helpful resource for parents looking for a fresh approach. Vanessa Bush
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About the Author
William Glasser, M.D., is a world-renowned psychiatrist who lectures widely. His numerous books have sold 1.7 million copies, and he has trained thousands of counselors in his Choice Theory and Reality Therapy approaches. He is also the president of the William Glasser Institute in Los Angeles.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
By Daniel R. Greenfield
If you are the parent of a teen who is having developmental problems of any sort, then you need this book. This book takes the essence of Choice Theory and applies it to the relationship between teens and their parents. The book consists of a number of case studies featuring the stories of typical young adults with all different sorts of problems ranging from anorexia to poor performance in school. As he is relating the story behind each case, the author will frequently turn to a brief discussion of various facets of his Choice Theory and how they apply to the case at hand.
Glasser's enlightened discussion of the Quality World concept of Choice Theory is central to the book, and how this applies to the teen's relationship with his/her parents. Coupled with this are discussions of the concepts of control and choice. Relinquishing one's control over a teen, and gently guiding them toward making better choices is another common theme running through these case studies. My advice is, if you have a teen, or young adult, and you are experiencing some turbulence (and who does not?), buy this book, read it, underline the passages that strike you as most important (there are many), then keep this book at your side, within reaching distance, as you navigate these years. It is well worth it to be able to reach for this book in times of trouble, when your relationship with your teen or young adult seems to be deteriorating, to open a page at random, and just read. Very often, you will encounter an extremely important insight that can guide you forward.
Thank you Dr. Glasser for helping us parents to understand that the relationship is everything.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
By G. Peled
Easy to read, provides a practical approach to a very challenging problem. Offers a workable, actually enjoyable way to improve every kind of relationship, not only those with teenagers. Since reading and discussing it with my family, we hear far less shouting in our house.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
By R. Kurtz
Ignore references to his other works and you're home free. You have everything you need in this one book. Implementing it is the big challenge because it goes against the grain of what we've been taught growing up. If one can do it, it will change your relationship with your teen dramatically.
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