Engaging Adolescents™

Parenting skills for resolving teenage behaviour problems

The structure of this course provides parents with a model for working out what behaviour needs to be ignored, how to coach teenagers to consider the consequences of their actions and to hold difficult conversations when agreements are breached. A practical ' how-to ' guide for parents.

Engaging Adolescents training dates                

Course curriculum for Engaging Adolescents, click here.

Evaluation summary from a previous course, click here.

Feedback from a practitioner:

Just to let you know we have just completed an Engaging Adolescents course for parents. There were 8 participants (primarily Dads) which was very heartening. It went really well and the material was easy to follow and present. We received encouraging feedback on the second night. A step dad recalled an incident at the weekend with his 12 year old step daughter. He said that the input he had received the previous week from the course helped him keep his cool and brought a more favourable outcome. A single Mum who had presented as quite anxious on the first night told the group in week 2 that she had made an appointment with her 15 year old son during the week and had had a far more favourable discussion with him than would previously have been the case.

Week 2... was received well by the parents as it seemed to balance things out for them.The role plays also worked well last night. Myself and my cofacilitator ran the role play first and then gave parents opportunity to practice. After some initial resistance they all got into to it in pairs.

Thanks for the program. We will be running it again in the new year.    

Robyn Mitchell

Parent Educator FREST