For Parents of Young Adults: What do we do now? (Parenting)

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 education—Paul 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, today’s young adults are facing unprecedented challenges, leaving many parents of young adults fearful, confused, and agitated. Today’s 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 and a young adult'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?