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For most parents of troubled teenagers, a healing program that requires the child from the house for a time frame offers some respite from the daily tumult of operating out, sits, and tension that has remaining the family under siege. However, equally the teenager is getting into a quest of self-discovery, skill-development, and mental maturation, so parents too need to utilize this time to recognize that their own habits may have added to their family's downward spiral. This is The Parallel Process. Using case studies garnered from her many years as an adolescent and family therapist, Krissy Pozatek shows parents of preteens, adolescents, and adults how they can help their children by attuning to emotions, setting limitations, not rushing to their rescue, and permitting them to take responsibility for their actions, while recognizing their own habits of emotional drawback, workaholism, and of surrendering their lives and personalities to parenting. The Parallel Process can be an essential primer for everyone parents, whether of troubled young adults or not, who are seeking to help the family stay and develop along as they negotiate the possibly difficult teenage years.
