Sponsored by the Australian Psychological Society. Times given are for Melbourne - the Pacific time is 4:30 pm July 14.

SESSION THREE: Often it is the parents who are most motivated for change, and clinicians often find that working with parents as primary clients is as or more effective than working with their offspring. If one member of the family is accepting unnecessary support, it is axiomatic that another is providing it - and wondering when it will no longer be expected. This session discusses strategy for working with parents to gently, consciously, and with careful planning shift some of their actions away from support for incapacity toward support for independence, while ramping down blaming/nagging/advice-giving and cooling the atmosphere of strain within the family.