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Target population: Parents of teens.

Program uniqueness: Emphasis on the building blocks -- how to handle misbehavior, discouragement, discipline, AND the problems that face every parent-teen relationship.

STEP/Teen has been helping parents build close family relationships for over thirty years! This thire edition of STEP/Teen not only helps parents with everyday problems such as messy rooms, moods, and meals, it also confronts today's more complex issues-drug use, sex, gangs and depression.

Seven sessions

STEP/Teen is organized into seven sessions to fit parents' busy life styles. Sessions address these important issues:

• Understanding Yourself and Your Teenager
• Changing Your Response to Your Teen
• Communicating Respect and Encouragement
• Encouraging Cooperation and Solving Problems
• Using Consequences to Build Responsibility
• Deciding What to Do-Part I
• Deciding What to Do-Part II

Parent's Handbook

STEP/Teen's handbook for parents, Parenting Teenagers, includes all the essential topics of the original version -- encouragement, consequences, and the goals of behavior -- with important topics added-single parents, stepfamilies, homework, drugs, violence and gangs. Parenting Teenagers is easy to use and understand with chapter openers that provide a clear focus; at-home activities to apply STEP/Teen skills right away; and helpful index to locate topics quickly.

Convenient Leader's Resource Guide

STEP/Teen leader's materials come in a practical three-ring binder. The materials include detailed session guides and essential information on group leadership. The guide also includes:

• Group discussion guidelines -- two versions for working with voluntary participants and those whose participation is court mandated.
• Drug awareness sheets -- eleven handouts for parents to teach teens about preventing drug abuse.
• Supplementary activities -- to provide additional practice.
• Special topic sheets -- on issues such as dependant teens and managing anger.
• Publicity aids -- to attract new members to your group.
• Parent survey and evaluation form.

STEP/Teen features three videos

The STEP/Teen program comes alive through these compelling videos. Using real situations, the videos offer parents opportunities to view and discuss STEP/Teen techniques in action. As parents learn to identify more closely with their children, they open the door to better understanding. The third video features leader training that acquaints new leaders with the program's components, and offers suggestions for leading STEP/Teen groups.

STEP/Teen includes:

• Parent's Handbook -- Parenting Teenagers -- easy-to-read handbook for parents. Order additional copies for each participant here.
• Leader's Resource Guide -- with session guide, reproducible handouts, activities, parent survey, certificate of participation, and additional aids on specific topics important to today's parents.
• DVD -- videos model the STEP/Teen skills parents can use right away, and offer tips especially for parent educators. Closed captioned.
• Full-color workshop announcement posters.

Target population: For parents of Spanish-speaking children from 6 through 12 years of age, who would benefit from STEP in unique Spanish language materials -- not "dubs" or "literal translations."  Package includes DVDs instead of VHS tapes.

STEP Spanish -- Version en Espanol

If you work with Spanish-speaking parents, you'll welcome this edition of STEP. The materials in Spanish STEP are translated so that parents can learn the same practical, effective skills found in the English STEP. You get the complete STEP -- Leader's Resource Guide, Handbook, videos, and announcement posters -- in Spanish. The videos are fully produced in Spanish, too-not dubbed or subtitled -- with Spanish-speaking actors in true-to-life scenes and locales around the country.

Seven sessions include:

• Understanding Yourself and Your Child
• Understanding Beliefs and Feelings
• Encouraging Your Child and Yourself
• Listening and Talking to Your Child
• Helping Children Learn to Cooperate
• Discipline that Makes Sense
• Choosing Your Approach

Your Spanish STEP kit includes:

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  Participant's Handbook -- easy-to-read handbook for parents. Be sure to order additional copies for each participant here.
• Leader's Resource Guide -- with session guide, reproducible h andouts, activities, parent survey, certificate of participation, and additional aids on specific topics important to today's parents.
• DVD -- two videos model the STEP skills parents can use right away, plus a third video (in English) for parent educators filled with tips on how to lead a parenting group. Closed captioned.
• Full-color workshop annoucement posters.

Participant's Handbook
Guia para los Padres

The STEP Parent's Handbook features straightforward concepts and numerous examples relevant to today's families. This popular parenting guide helps improve communication among family members through time-tested principles that have worked for millions of parents and parent educators. Easy to understand and apply, Spanish STEP presents effective skills parents can use immediately.