Watch Videos and Download Handouts
The goal of Reaching Teens: Strength-Based Communications Strategies to Build Resilience and Support Healthy Adolescent Development is to enhance your comfort with and skill in communicating with teenagers so that you are better positioned to guide them.
Reaching Teens knows you are the expert on your practice and does not suggest replacing your style with any of the approaches offered here; rather, it offers a repertoire of strategies that you may use to supplement your own.
Click on the sections below to access the videos and patient education handouts for each chapter.
- Section 1: Orientation to a Strength-Based Approach (Chapters 1-7)
- Section 2: Understanding Adolescents and Their World (Chapters 8-11)
- Section 3: Connecting With Adolescents and Their Families (Chapters 12-15)
- Section 4: Communicating With the Adolescent (Chapters 16-24)
- Section 5: Empowering Adolescents to Change (Chapters 25-33)
- Section 6: Supporting Effective Parenting (Chapters 34-39)
- Section 7: Mental, Emotional and Behavioral Health (Chapters 40-58)
- Section 8: Serving Special Populations (Chapters 59-66)
- Section 9: Self-care for Providers (Chapters 67-69)