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<blockquote data-quote="everywoman" data-source="post: 210590" data-attributes="member: 1436"><p>I think that most 16 year olds think they know it all already, so getting to participate in therapy means taking the focus off of their behavior. Can you approach from a "we need to know how to better parent you because we are not doing a good job" point of view. If she thinks its because of her, she will balk. If she sees it as a way to make her life easier, she may comply. </p><p></p><p>In my home, when my difficult child (and my easy child, for that matter) were in the midst of teenage angst (and double or triple that with a difficult child) than I tied therapy/counseling to extras. If you go, do what you are supposed to, then life goes on. If not, it stops. No extras, no shopping (and what teenage girl will go without), no cell, no computer, no nights out. It was, at the time, my version of do to get. You do therapy...you get .....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="everywoman, post: 210590, member: 1436"] I think that most 16 year olds think they know it all already, so getting to participate in therapy means taking the focus off of their behavior. Can you approach from a "we need to know how to better parent you because we are not doing a good job" point of view. If she thinks its because of her, she will balk. If she sees it as a way to make her life easier, she may comply. In my home, when my difficult child (and my easy child, for that matter) were in the midst of teenage angst (and double or triple that with a difficult child) than I tied therapy/counseling to extras. If you go, do what you are supposed to, then life goes on. If not, it stops. No extras, no shopping (and what teenage girl will go without), no cell, no computer, no nights out. It was, at the time, my version of do to get. You do therapy...you get ..... [/QUOTE]
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