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W007 The New American Family

Explore interventions that respond to the generational shift in 21st-century family life. Learn methods that include the new basics of raising children in today’s world and contemporary techniques to encouraging parental authority and problem-solving.

bessel_vanderkolkRon Taffel, Ph.D.

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From Wednesday, May 26
Price: $15

Includes:
- downloadable MP3 audio file of interview (approx. running time: 60 minutes)
- 1 CE Hour

Meet the Instructor

Ron Taffel, Ph.D., is chairman of the board of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York City. He's author of Getting Through to Difficult Kids and Parents; Nurturing Good Children Now; and The Second Family: How Adolescent Power Is Challenging the American Family. His latest book, Breaking Through to Teens, has just been published

Learning Objectives

  1. Describe Taffel's vision of how "warp speed" cultural changes have affected our work with children.
  2. List three of the "bewildering paradoxes" of 21st-century parenting.
  3. Discuss how Taffel proposes we engage children who reject the old norms of family.

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