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*2004 Upgrade (PWAT version 3.0) is now available!! New formatting and features have been incorporated into this upgrade including a new multicultural introduction, new on-screen narrators, new controls allowing pause, rewind, fast forward, and full screen changes during video play, new onscreen labeling of skills displayed during video sequences, improved administrator shortcuts, a new video scene depicting a parent-teacher conference (in Problem 6), a note-taking feature allowing parents to print their notes upon exiting the program, improved tracking and data collection and more! PWAT 3.0 is available to purchasers of "older" versions of PWAT for US $199 plus return of the "old" cdrom!

PARENTING WISELY (American Teens)*

Parenting Wisely (American Teenagers) Nine typical problem situations are presented including: doing household chores, stepparent-youth relationships, monitoring "troublesome" friends, improving poor school performance, sibling fighting, and complying with parental requests(phone use and music volume) and more. Both effective and ineffective solutions are depicted for each problem followed by comprehensive critiques and explanations of the parenting and communication skills viewed.

Parenting Wisely(American Teens) is evidence-based, and has proven effective:

• In significantly reducing verbal and physical aggression between teens and parents (and between spouses and partners!)
• In significantly reducing the frequency and severity of teen/preteen problem behaviors
• In significantly increasing knowledge of and implementation of effective parenting skills
• In improving and strengthening family relationships
  
  Parenting Wisely (American Teens):

• Is self-paced, and totally narrated (no literacy barrier)
• Allows parents to view common family problems enacted in video scenes
• Provides multiple solutions critiquing both effective and ineffective parenting methods
• Teaches valuable communication and behavior management skills including: Contracting, Assertive Discipline, "I" Statements, Supervision of Schoolwork and Peers, Positive Role-Modeling, and more…
• Requires no therapist/facilitator
• Removes the social "stigma" of attending group parenting classes
• Includes a comprehensive parent workbooks (100 pages) with all solution critiques, review questions, a glossary of terms, sample behavior charts, practice exercises, and more!

Parenting Wisely (American Teens) has been named an "exemplary" program by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), a "model" program by The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and a "best practices" program by the Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (WCAPT).