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6 Degrees Of Separation For Parents

6 DEGREES OF SEPARATION FOR PARENTS: Facilitating Transitions in Young Adulthood Shared Goals Between Parent And Young Adult: To achieve and affirm independence and self-governance while maintaining close and mutually validating relationships. CONNECTION Young Adult Noods: • Connection to community. • Adjust to living on their own. • Engage in productive activities; school or work. Parents: • Be calm and reassuring about their ability to work through the challenges and to seek help from a support system, especially at the beginning of new transitions. Young Adult Noods: • Independence. • Opportunity to move toward adulthood and establish autonomy as an important step in their growth. SEPARATION Parents: • Accept that you won't know the details of your emerging adult's life. • Find support to manage your own anxiety about the separation. PROBLEM RESOLUTION Young Adult Noods: • Manage complex problems within society. Parents: • Offer guidance. • Express confidence in them. • Encourage a balance of independence with thoughtful reliance on others for support. • Trust their decisions. RELATIONSHIPS Young Adult Noeds: AND COLLABORATION skills like communication and boundary setting. • Learning to live with other people teaches essential Parents: • Encourage them to actively work through issues instead of avoiding them, looking for easy solutions, or fleeing. • Help them seek solutions that wili enhance their growth and learning. Young Adult Noods: • Accommodate rules and structure. • Learn accountability for their actions and conduct. RESPONSIBILITY Parents: • Give space for structure. • Place responsibility with your child. Young Adult Noods: • If your son or daughter is in residential treatment, engage in activities designed to promote community. provide cultural and fine art experience, enhance living skills and have some down time and fun. • Use weekends to develop the skills to be alone, grocery shop, care for the apartment. SUPPORT THROUGH TREATMENT Presonted by: Parents: • Take cues in regard to time spent at home and family self-expression and self-declaration. • Respect a period of separation to work on building autonomy, a stronger sense of self, and the skills of obligations. YELLOW BIICK P YOUR ME

6 Degrees Of Separation For Parents

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