Looking For Your Help - Ideas For Brief Videos

Next week I will be making a series of videos. I could try to think about what to talk about on each video but I want the videos to be as helpful as possible.

So am looking for help to come up with ideas that you would like me to make videos of, it could be a self help issue - like 'How can I stop panic attacks?, or 'How can I calm down quickly?', or 'What is the best way to do self hypnosis?'. Or it could be a personal development issue - like 'How can I retain what I learn better?', or a question as a practitioner, like a question about how to do some aspect of healing, or solution focused working, or hypnosis, or how to overcome a problem like how to handle resistant clients, or how to work with smokers, etc.

It could be something like how to use hypnosis for weight loss, or how to use solution focused working with families, etc. What ever it happens to be it is helpful for the question to be as specific as possible, rather than too vague.

I look forward to your questions. The professional cameraperson is only being hired for one day, so I want to make the questions I answer on camera on that day as helpful to people as possible, not just me talking about what I come up with and what I think people want to know, but me talking about what others actually want to know.

Thank you for your time in thinking up questions...

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Troubled Families Agenda - An Evidence-Based Approach To Support Parents To Reduce Youth Crime & Anti-Social Behaviour

New book by Dan Jones, ‘Using a Humanistic Solution Focused Approach with Parents & Families to Reduce Anti-Social Behaviour & Youth Offending’ explores the Humanistic Solution Focused Approach to supporting parents. Over a five-year period Jones worked with parents of young offenders and those ‘at risk’ of becoming young offenders to help to reduce anti-social behaviour and youth crime, leading to a 68% reduction in youth crime over the year following support compared to eligible parents that chose not to take up the support.

"96% of young people 'at risk' of becoming a young offender whose parents engaged with support DIDN'T become young offenders over the year following support, and three years later 89% still HADN'T become young offenders"

Jones applied a Humanistic Solution Focused Approach, supporting parents to develop an authoritative parenting style so that they could help their youth turn away from a path of youth crime and anti-social behaviour with the aim of producing safer communities, improving family relationships and giving greater future opportunities to those young people.

With the current troubled families agenda, this research which was done with a youth offending service supports effective and lasting change to help many of those 'troubled families' to change their lives and save local authorities significant costs.

“Without support youth crime levels rose from 39% to 51% over three years following the offer of support, whereas with Humanistic Solution Focused Parenting Support youth crime levels dropped from 21% to 17% over a three year period” said Jones

Humanistic Solution Focused Therapy is an approach based on Solution Focused Therapy as developed by Steve De Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg integrated with a humanistic approach that takes into consideration all aspects of the parent and family’s life, exploring basic emotional needs of the parents and the youth, how these needs are being met and which needs aren’t being met, the skills and abilities that the parents and youth have which could be useful for helping to create change and the social networks of the parents and the youth. The Solution Focused aspect looks at what the parents want to achieve from the support, where they are now in relation to what they want to achieve, times when what they want to achieve is already happening and what needs to be different to move things forwards.

 

"68% of young offenders whose parents were supported DIDN'T go on to offend over the year following support compared to 44% of young offenders whose parents chose not to be supported; over three years 60% of young offenders whose parents were supported still HADN'T offended compared to just 18% of young offenders whose parents had chosen not to be supported three years earlier. This shows the lasting impact of supporting parents with this approach where the parents are empowered to create change based on their own strengths and skills, rather than 'telling' parents what to do. Parents manage to maintain change. Whereas unsupported parents have youth with worse re-offending rates in the first year which is dire by year three"

Jones offered support to 321 parents and monitored youth crime levels after one year, and for 91 families, also monitored youth crime levels three years later. This allowed Jones to track the difference between the outcomes for youth with parents that didn’t receive parenting support compared to the youth with parents that received support. In total 68% less young people offended in the year following support compared to young people of parents that didn’t receive support, 69% less young people that were ‘at risk’ of criminal offending went on to commit youth crime following support compared to young people of parents that didn’t receive support, and over a three year period 51% less young people that had committed youth crime went on to commit further youth crime compared to young people of parents that didn’t receive support.

By working with parents using a Humanistic Solution Focused Approach youth crime was reduced significantly. An average of 11% of youth ‘at risk’ of offending, with parents that received support went on to commit youth crimes over the 3-year period following support, compared to 33% of youth with parents that chose not to have support. For youth that had already committed youth crime, 40% of youth with parents that received support went on to commit further youth crimes over the 3-year period following support, compared to 82% of youth with parents that chose not to have support. All support offered was on a voluntary basis.  If parents didn’t want the support this decision was accepted.

“I feel confident to follow through with discipline” Parent’s feedback

“No shouting and rows like before. Mum seems happier and I am staying at school” Young person’s feedback

One of the outcomes from the research was that it is important to have on-going parenting support groups running monthly that parents can attend to help with maintenance of changes, to prevent the parents slipping back into old patterns.

Further details can be found in Dan Jones new book ‘Using a Humanistic Solution Focused Approach with Parents and Families to Reduce Anti-Social Behaviour and Youth Offending’ on how the Humanistic Solution Focused Approach was used with parents to reduce youth crime and anti-social behaviour and more details on the findings gathered. This book is available now in paperback from Lulu Publishing and on Amazon Kindle and became available in paperback on Amazon and other retailers from 3^rd September 2012. There is also an article in the Human Givens Journal (Vol 19 No 2)

Please share this information with friends and colleagues and help to reduce youth crime and anti-social behaviour, and empower parents to create change within their families and their youth.