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Five years ago, I was living a nightmare,
blaming my youngest teenager, who had been diagnosed with
oppositional defiant disorder, for the mess my family was in.
All of us, including my husband and our two other teenagers,
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It was only when I discovered Dr. Jeff
Kaplan's principles of "love-based parenting" and incorporated
them into my personal life that my family life began to
improve.
Instead of blaming my teenagers for the over-the-top stress
level in our home, I began exploring my own highly emotional
reactions to their crises. For the first time I saw in my
14-year-old's struggle some of the issues that had plagued me
since I was an adolescent. By handling my emotions better and
responding to parenting challenges in a new, more positive
way, I watched my youngest blossom into a cooperative, wise
and loving adolescent--in less than six months!
If I, using the principles that you are about to discover,
could transform a home filled with discord into a place where
a family of loving, honest, respectful individuals now lives,
you can do the same thing! I was so impressed with the changes
in my family using the strategies you will learn in our book
that I insisted that Jeff team up with me to spread the word
about love-based parenting to as many other parents of
teenagers as possible. The results of our collaboration are
here on this website waiting for you.
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Each parent/teen relationship is different,
of course, but the examples in Finding the Path were carefully
chosen to illustrate an effective approach to parenting
teenagers based on Dr. Jeff Kaplan’s almost 20 years of
experience as an adolescent psychologist, mental health
counselor and professional life coach for parents. |
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Below he speaks about how he came to be an
expert on adolescent psychology and parenting.
I began working with parents and teens in 1984, when I was
still in college.
Since then, I have seen literally thousands of teenagers in
dozens of different settings-private, parochial and public
schools; day and residential programs; emergency shelters;
hospitals; detention centers and private homes.
And I have worked with all kinds of teenagers—from very
rebellious and delinquent to very agreeable and pleasant—some
with learning differences, attention deficit disorder,
oppositional defiant disorder, social difficulties, depression
and/or behavior problems.
Early on in my career I discovered that if the teenagers I
counseled were struggling, then most often so were their
parents. I also learned that one of the best ways I could help
the teenager (who I typically saw only once a week) was to
empower the parents with the parenting skills, insight and
support THEY needed.
That’s how I run my practice—involving the whole family—and
that’s what the examples in Finding the Path illustrate. A
happy resolution to family problems involves everyone, and
sometimes the best place to start the change process is with
the adults in the relationship. That’s why I’ve spent so much
time developing the 52 tenets of Love-Based Parenting that
appear in our book.
Dr. Kaplan has three graduate degrees in Psychology, including
a Ph.D. from Temple University and a Masters from both Temple
and Boston College. He is a licensed psychologist with a
full-time therapy practice in Philadelphia and is a certified
parent coach as well as a licensed therapeutic hypnotist . For
more information about Dr. Kaplan go to his website at:
www.manageteens.com.
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