Parenting With Love And Limits

Targeted Age of Child: 10-18

Targeted Audience: Pre-teens and teens with identified/diagnosed issues with aggression/violence, conduct disorder, delinquency, and/or substance abuse.

Effectiveness Within Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender and Settings:

• Evaluated for effectiveness with African-American, Caucasian and Hispanic Families
• Evaluated for effectiveness in urban, suburban and rural settings
• Evaluated as effective for both genders

Program Description: Using a combination of group and family therapy this program strives to rejuvenate the child/parent relationship by teaching skills to re-build and restructure a mutually nurturing relationship while simultaneously providing the parent(s) with tools and strategies to set limits, maintain discipline and ensure the safety and well being of their adolescent child(ren).

Evaluated Outcomes:

• Reduced adolescent substance use
• Reduced adolescent aggressive behaviors
• Reduced adolescent depression
• Decreased conduct disorder among children
• Reduced adolescent attention deficit disorder issues
• Reduced externalizing problems
• Reduced recidivism
• Improved adolescent-parent communication
• Decreased mothers' negative perceptions and attitudes toward their adolescent

Number of Sessions and Format:

• Six weekly two hour classes for up to six families of parents, teens and sometimes siblings or extended family
• First hour consists of group therapy with parents and teens together
• Second hour consists of parent and teen breakout out groups
• Three to twenty one to two hour individual family therapy sessions that run concurrently with the group sessions though they may extend beyond the group therapy period

Staffing: Group facilitators must be master's level certified therapists. Case loads should consist of 10-20 families for high risk youth or 25-35 families for low to medium risk youth. Co-facilitators may be bachelor's level in a human services or therapy related field, however they must be supervised by a master's level therapist.

Cost: High

Registry Listings: SAMHSA, OJJDP, HAY

Contact Information:

Diana L. Bala
Marketing Director
Savannah Family Institute, Inc.
P.O. Box 30381
Savannah, GA 31410
Phone: 800-735-9525
Fax: 912-727-2847
Email: diana@gopll.com
Web site: http://www.gopll.com