Overcoming Deadlocked Conflicts Between Teens and Parents: A Resilience-Based Model for Family Intervention

Although parent–teen conflict often exemplifies typical adolescent development, it can become polarizing and deadlock family counseling efforts to resolve it. A family resilience perspective can provide a positive method for overcoming this family impasse. This article proposes a model for using resilience-based family interventions to resolve parent–teen conflict. It explains how the characteristics of parent–teen conflict, resilience concepts, and a resilience framework for family intervention suggest effective methods for assessment, goal formation, and intervention for parent–teen conflict. Family counseling examples are presented to illustrate the model's use.