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Guide to Helping Parents

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The Best Things Therapists Can Do To Help Parents

  1. Parents need to be encouraged, guided, taught and convinced, if need be, that they are the architects and leaders of the family, and that no other influence comes close to that of parents.

  2. Parents need to be taught that one small change, held consistently for 6-12 months, will cause more improvement in a family than a whole host of resolutions and rules that are instituted haphazardly.

  3. If they seem to have trouble with the possibility of their children being angry at them when they set limits, parents need to be encouraged to explore why they are so paralyzed by fear and guilt.

  4. Therapists need to get extremely comfortable with their own parenting flaws, and to have impeccable boundaries and structure in the therapy setting.

  5. Parents need to be strongly encouraged to take responsibility for their decisions, and to anticipate the consequences of their personal decisions on their families.

  6. Parents need to learn how to identify and appropriately express their feelings in ways that demonstrate openness tempered by impulse control.

  7. Parents need to be taught how to listen. One of the quickest, most effective ways is through group therapy that is safe, not dramatic, and structured. What appears to be boring will be, in fact, the very thing that parents and children need to learn how to do.

 

 



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