The Oppositional Teenager

<br><br><b>My Teenager Needs Help... I Need Help!</b><br><br>Between mainstream teenagers and juvenile delinquents are those oppositional teenagers who simply cannot or will not follow the expectations parents schools and society have for them. They disrupt classes skip school altogether engage in power struggles and attention-seeking or retreat into alternative worlds of technological amusement isolation and depression. Some become involved in more serious activities such as bullying vandalism drug abuse and self-mutilation. Whether defiant or withdrawn these oppositional teens confound parents who have no idea how to help them. The Oppositional Teenager provides the answers. Parents must take responsibility by initiating and sustaining a change process. First they must develop greater awareness of their teenager's psychological dynamics--and their own. Then they must gain their teenager's respect by role modeling a positive approach to life and investing goodwill in the relationship. Finally in learning the options available (psychological educational legal medical) parents can help lead their oppositional teenager toward a successful future.