Helping Parents Regulate Their Emotions When in Conflict with Teen
{"Image DocumentName": "Helping Parents Regulate Their Emotions When in Conflict with Teen", "Image ImageDescription": "Teach trategies for changing the timing and process of confrontations. Important to educate parents that when teen attacks and parent becomes dysregulated then parent can no longer be effective in enforcing rules and consequences. Teens will escalate their behavior in an attempt to control outcome of mood and outcome of the interaction (Sells, 1998). SELLS IDENTIFIES SOME OF THE COMMON BUTTON-PUSHING STATEMENTS TEENS MIGHT MAKE: I HATE YOU YOU\u2019RE SUCH A ____, IF YOU DON\u2019T LET ME GO I\u2019LL KILL MYSELF..THESE KINDS OF STATEMENTS CAN CAUSE PARENTS TO REACT IRRATIONALLY AND BECOME OVERLY EMOTIONAL CREATING A SITUATION THAT IN UNPRODUCTIVE FOR BOTH TEEN AND PARENT. TEEN NOW HAS CONTROL OF CONFLICT BECAUSE PARENT IS REACTING TO HIS BEHAVIOR AND BEGINS TO ESCALATE WITH TEEN.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}