What is a parent to do in this stage of parenting?When all options seem to be awful, when you have hit your limit, when you are arguing with your partner over what to do, when you arent sure whether to protect your child or let the consequences of the world do their worstyou need a fresh perspective. Paul Krauss MA LPC has been working with young adults and their parents since 2007. During this time, Paul has developed a knack for understanding the attitudes and motivations of young adults, while also empathizing with the unique challenges that parents of young adults face in light of the chaotic and dangerous world that they see awaiting their children. Drawing on his experience working with young adults and their parents in Chicago, Phoenix, and Grand Rapids, MI, as well as his clinical skills and post-graduate educationPaul has put together an informational course for the parents of young adults who are desperate to find answers, and develop a plan to help their child avoid devastation and meet their full potential. Once called the failure to launch generation, todays young adults are facing unprecedented challenges, leaving many parents of young adults fearful, confused, and agitated. Todays young adults face an unstable job market, the ever-increasing availability of drugs, alcohol, and sexual hook ups, uncertain career prospects, high-housing costs, and political and social upheaval. While many parents are anxious to help their young adults move out and begin their adult life, these same parents of young adults often feel frozen in terms of attempting to sort out financial support (how much, how often, and when to stop), what is the difference between a cry for help and basic drama, how to change patterns of communication with their young adult from a child-like exchange to an adult-to-adult conversation, and more. In 6 modules and almost 3 hours of video, Paul will walk you through pragmatic ideas that can help you with your young adult, including: Safety, navigating the mental health system, understanding change anda youngadult’s mentality, how to have more effective conversations with your young adult, how to enforce boundaries, working on helping without enabling, and what to do if my young adult has an addiction?1. What is an Emergency? Crisis as Opportunity: When to utilize Mental HealthServices and Understanding Levels of Care.2. Understanding Stages of Change and Rites of Passage for Young Adults. Why dothey think that way? Understanding the motivations and attitudes of todaysYoung Adults.3. Changing Communication Patterns: A Whole New Paradigm.4. Setting up Realistic Boundaries: Stop enabling, start enforcing, and roll with theresistance.5. Ways to help Promote Prosocial Activities and Reduce Antisocial Behaviors6. What if my Young Adult has Addictive Tendencies?This course comes with a great deal of video teaching, stories, and anecdotes and a course overview document with many suggestions. Thanks to over 14 years of experience, you will be gaining a great deal of knowledge. Many parents ask me questions, some of these questions were the basis of the creation of this course. What do I do if my young adult is using drugs and alcohol?I feel like if I stop giving my young adult moneythey will go homeless; I cant do that. My young adult no longer listens to me and they only call when they need financial assistance or help with something. Every time I talk to my child, we end up arguing about politics and religion and it is awful. My young adult blames me for all of their problems. My young adult has threatened to stop talking to me or not let me see my grandchildren. My young adult has told me that if I dont help them buy a car, they will never get a job and end up being a failure and it will be all my fault. My young adult believes that marijuana and alcohol are beneficial for their mental health and that it helps them with their anxietyI disagree, but am afraid to say anything. My spouse and I are constantly arguing over how much money we should give to our young adultI feel that they have no boundariesthey tell me that I am a bad parent.I am afraid that my young adult will commit suicide if I set up boundaries. My spouse is constantly texting with our young adult about every little thing, I believe it is unhealthy to communicate that much with a young person who needs to be making their own decisions and communicating with friends their own age.I found out my spouse was still doing our young adults laundryand that they had been paying for their groceries to be delivered to their apartment because they were anxious. My child, who is now a young adult, has a drug and alcohol habit and I am worried they are going to die of addictionwhat can I do to stop them?My young adult has completely abandoned the morals and ethics I taught them as a child and rejects our familys belief systems completelywhat do I do?My young adult has dropped out of college multiple times and I cant understand why they wont just finish their education.I fear that my young adult is addicted to t
