Many therapists today are treating growing numbers of delinquent, sexually promiscuous, and even street-involved youth who come from caring, stable, financially secure families. In many cases, these actions may result from overprotective parents who may actually be undermining their children's resilience by overstating the world's dangers and discouraging healthy risk-taking. This workshop will offer guidelines for learning to challenge such parents and help them support their children in developing more functional coping styles. You'll learn a 3-stage model of strength-based interventions focused on transforming dysfunctional family narratives, developing safe substitutes for problem behavior, and developing appropriate ceremonies to define and inaugurate new family patterns. (This session will continue with Workshop 309.)