Table of Contents

Preface

Part One: The Teenage Landscape
1. Raising teenagers these days
2. What teenagers can and can't do
3. Mind maintenance for teenagers
4. The nature of difficult behaviour in teenagers

Part Two: Using Scripts So You Don't Flip Your Lid
5. Why scripts matter
6. PASTA for teenagers
7. Holding your nerve

Part Three: Case Studies and Worksheets to Use At Home
8. Three serves of PASTA
9. Advanced lessons in taming tigers
10. Instructions for using scripts
11. They won't know how to negotiate unless someone shows them.

Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Resources
Index

About the Author

Michael Hawton is a registered psychologist with over 30 years’ experience, having spent much of his career working with parents and children. He teaches behaviour management to professionals, and has developed parent education programs that have been taught to over 100,000 people.

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