Ron Taffel, PhD will present a powerful new framework for dealing with today’s children and teens for whom precocity, scattered focus, high-risk behavior and acting out, lack of adult guidance, and intense stress increasingly come with the territory. Ron Taffel’s addresses the key challenges of building adult-child relationships that are strong enough to promote real behavioral and emotional change. Provided is an overarching framework and practical, concrete techniques. Among other areas the workshop will include giving advice that children of all ages listen to, getting teens to tell the truth about their lives, handling confidentiality dilemmas, engaging formidable or hard-to-reach mothers and fathers, helping parents reestablish their authority, empowering kids to deal with peers and social cruelty, while challenging children and teens to develop healthy passions and compassion. In addition, participants will be offered an integration of what has proven effective from the confusing maze of diagnostic, treatment modalities and child rearing advice all around. This is a state-of-the-art workshop from a master teacher of both professionals and parents.
Dr. Ron Taffel is a noted child and family therapist, the author of countless articles and a half dozen parenting and professional books. For all age children, his works include Parenting by Heart, Why Parents Disagree, Getting Through to Difficult Kids and Parents, and Nurturing Good Children Now. His guides on adolescence are entitled The Second Family and Breaking Through to Teens: Psychotherapy for the New Adolescence. Dr. Taffel has consulted with and spoken at hundreds of schools, religious and community organizations around the country. He has appeared on numerous TV shows such as 20/20, The Today Show, Dateline, Good Morning America and The Larry King Show. Dr. Taffel is Chair of The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York City where he lives with his wife and children.
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