ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the key skill sets that help adolescents make behavioral changes to prevent violence and abuse towards family members. Changing behaviors that have become patterned responses is not easy, even with a strong desire to change. Learning new behaviors is a first step, but without continual practice, ongoing support, reminders, and feedback, continuing a newly learned behavior is challenging for anyone, particularly teens. Integrating a new behavioral skill set to replace established behaviors takes small steps, time, and a great deal of encouragement and patience.
