Parenting Your Out-Of-Control Teenager: 8 Strategies to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love (Revised Edition)

By Scott P. Sells

An updated and expanded version of a title that has helped families tackle tough teenage behavior dynamics for twenty-five years

Every teenager rebels against authority at some point--talks back, breaks curfew, or disobeys. But literally millions of teens take their rebellion to a point where it disrupts their families and endangers their own futures or even their lives. This breakthrough guide, from a master therapist who has decades of clinical experience, with a new emphasis on the conditions facing modern teenagers, such as anxiety and lives lived on screens, lays out the eight steps to positive, permanent change for teenagers and their families:

1. Top ten reasons why teenagers get out of control
2. End button-pushing
3. It takes a village: Mobilize your extended family
4. How to write a contract that actually works
5. Techniques to solve teenagers' extreme behavioral problems
6. Techniques to solve teenagers' extreme emotional problems
7. Troubleshooting and dress rehearsals
8. Reclaiming love between you and your teenager

Clear, compassionate, and packed with hundreds of real-life solutions from families who have been there, Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager gives parents the tools they need to turn their teenagers lives around for good.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250392101
• ISBN13: 9781250392107
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials
• Length: 384 Pages