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The Parallel Process

Growing Alongside Your Adolescent or Young Adult in Treatment, Revised & Updated Edition

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  •    21.95 paperback
  •    10.99 eBook
  •    264 pages
  •    5.5 x 8.5
  •    Paperback, eBook
  • Paperback ISBN  978-1-59056-747-0
  • eBook ISBN  978-1-59056-748-7
  • Publisher: Lantern Publishing & Media
  • Publication Date: September 2025

The best-selling The Parallel Process revised and updated new edition contains new chapters and other valuable insights and information from the author integrated throughout the book. It also contains moving and poignant forewords by a care provider and parent. Using case examples garnered from her many years as an adolescent and family therapist, Krissy Pozatek shows parents of preteens, adolescent and young adults how they can break enmeshed parent-child patterns and promote their child’s emotional health and maturation through attuning to emotions, setting safety boundaries, and not rushing to the rescue. When parents learn to not take responsibility for their children’s emotions, problems and behaviors, their kids are more likely to take ownership and reclaim their lives. Likewise, parents can recognize their own patterns of surrendering their lives and personalities to parenting. As such, The Parallel Process is an essential primer for all parents of struggling teens, who are seeking to grow together as they navigate the adolescent years. 

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