Moms with Troubled Teens

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• Psychotherapy Group Mondays 730-845 Potomac
  Heights Baptist Church,
• led by Christine Buckingham, LCPC

• Moms with Troubled Teens

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• Group consists of 10 moms with teenagers. Moms
  have been experiencing distress, some because of
  parenting issues, some because of their own
  unresolved family of origin issues.
• Group will be held 8 weeks with Christine E.
  Buckingham, LCPC, NCC, MA leading the group.
• Chriss plan is to establish the group to provide
  on-going self-run support group at the end of the
  8 weeks.

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• Topics
• Family of Origin
• Biblical principals in parenting
• Emotional modulation
• Communication
• Triangulation, Displacement Projection
• Parental unity
• Stress management, Self care, Support
• Anger and Forgiveness
• Individuation separation
• How teens feel loved

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• On-site Supervision
• Pastor of church will provide some feedback
• Womens ministry leader is providing
  administrative support and some feedback
• Method
• Psycho-education using Bibliotherapy
• Experiential exercises
• Process