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Discover effective parenting skills that will benefit you and your family. The STEP (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting) Teen Program offers parents down-to-earth, practical ways to meet the challenges of raising today’s teenager. It enables parents to help their teens behave responsibly in the face of today’s social pressures. It also assist parents who want their relationship with teens to be more satisfying and enjoyable.
The program deals with a number of special challenges faced by parents of teenagers: their teen’s growing independence and increased social pressures; dating, curfews, and use of cars; part-time jobs, career plans, and the increase importance of school work; relating to other adults who have problems with their teen; lying, stealing, anger, violence; use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs; sexual activity, and pregnancy.
Through systematic presentation of concepts and skills, this program seeks to help parents:
- Understand a practical theory of human behavior that can be applied to parent-teen relationships
- Understand emotions of both teens and parents
- Encourage teens more effectively
- Improve communications between parents and teens so that all feel they are being heard and understood
- Develop skills for listening, resolving conflicts, and exploring alternatives
- Learn to prevent discipline problems
- Learn to use natural and logical consequences as methods of corrective discipline
- Prevent and resolve challenging problems
- Become aware of how building their own self-esteem, developing the courage to be imperfect, and being responsible for their own actions can help parents improve relationships with teens
How much does it cost?
There is a cost for time and materials of $175.00 per participant for all 7 weeks.
Schedule
Workshops take will be held weekly for 7-weeks starting on Wednesday, January 15th from 6:30-8:00PM.
Location
The workshops will take place at the Outreach office: 615 Washington Road, TL-6 (Executive Building), Pittsburgh, PA 15228
Registration
Call Outreach at 412-561-5405 to register for these workshops!
Questions?
If you have questions about the program, please reach out to Maggie Zangara, mzangara@outreachteen.org.
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