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PLL: Parenting With Love and Limits - Overview
Parenting with Love and Limits (PLL) is a new evidence-based research program that is funded by the State of Florida Department of Juvenile Justice and is being piloted exclusively in Circuit 13 – Hillsborough County. This pilot project is a collaborative effort between the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, Evidence-Based Associates, LLC, Bay Area Youth Services, Inc., and PLL creator Dr. Scott Sells of the Savannah Family Institute. PLL program services are being provided by BAYS master’s level therapists under the training and supervision of Dr. Sells.
Parenting with Love and Limits® (PLL) integrates group and family therapy into one system of care for adolescent populations with the primary diagnosis of oppositional defiant or conduct disorder. Parents and teens learn specific skills in group therapy and then meet in individual family therapy to role-play and practice these new skills. This integration of group and family therapy enables parents to transfer these new skills to real-life situations and prevent relapse.
During group therapy, teens and parents participate together in a small group, led by two facilitators, that can also include siblings and extended family. The groups consist of no more than six families and no more than 15 people total per group. Six 2-hour classes are held weekly. Parents and teens meet together as a group for the 1st hour. During the 2nd hour, the parents meet in one breakout group with one facilitator leading each breakout and the teens meet in another. During family therapy, teens and parents meet individually with one of the group facilitators in between classes in an intensive 1- to 2-hour session to practice the new skills learned in group. Extensive role-plays are used along with the development of a typed-out, loophole-free contract. Three to four family therapy sessions are recommended for low- to moderate-risk adolescents and up to 20 sessions for moderate- to high-risk offenders within an outpatient or home-based setting.
The Parenting with Love and Limits® system of care is comprised of 6 group sessions plus 3 or more family therapy sessions, as shown below:
• Group Session 1. Understanding Why Your Teen Misbehaves: Parents learn why their teen commit acts of parent abuse. Parents and teens go into their respective breakout groups to vent their feelings.
• Group Session 2. Button-Pushing: Parents learn how their teen pushes their hot buttons (whining, disgusted look, swearing, etc.), and teens learn how parents push theirs (lecturing, criticizing, talking in chapters, etc.).
• First PLL Family Therapy Session - Parents and teens meet individually to practice anti-button-pushing strategies.
• Group Session 3. Ironclad Contracting: Parents learn how and why their old methods of contracting have failed, as well as the steps to assemble a contract that works. Teens meet in their breakout groups to help write their own contract.
• Second PLL Family Therapy Session - Parents and teens meet individually to create their own contract.
• Group Session 4. Troubleshooting: Parents learn how teens have a special ability called “enhanced social perception” to think two steps ahead.
• Third PLL Family Therapy Session - Parents and teens meet individually to review their contracts and troubleshoot any loopholes. Extensive role plays are used to practice delivery of rewards and consequences.
• Group Session 5. Stopping the Seven Aces: Parents choose creative consequences to stop the seven “aces” of disrespect, ditching or failing school, running away, drugs or alcohol, sexual promiscuity, violence, and threats of suicide.
• Fourth PLL Family Therapy Session - Parents and teens meet individually to review their progress.
• Group Session 6. Reclaiming Lost Love: Parents learn to understand how conflict hinders the parent–child relationship and strategies to repair it.
• Fifth PLL Family Therapy Session and Beyond as Needed - Parents and teens begin to solidify nurturance as well as address any underlying family dysfunction. In both group and family therapy counselors are provided with detailed treatment manuals and the parents and teenagers with workbooks.
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