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• You may be working with a teen that may be sexually active, their parents are encouraged to talk to them about consent, safe sex and risks associated with sexual activity (e.g., unplanned pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases).

• Encourage your client to increase their participation in family events.  Increase behavioural expectations of your client’s participation in family events.
  • For example, they could start by agreeing to eat 1-2 meals with their family per week and work towards regularly having meals with their family.
  • Similarly, encourage your client’s participation in other family activities.

• Contingency management is a strategy that can be used to help improve behaviour problems and adolescence substance use.
  • This involves establishing clear behavioural goals that gradually shape a child’s behaviour in a specific area of concern, developing a system to monitor whether the child is reaching these goals, reinforcing appropriate steps towards reaching these goals, and providing consequences for inappropriate behaviour.
  • This strategy may be helpful in reducing a client’s smoking/vaping, drug use, and behaviour challenges.

• If your client has sleeping concerns they may go to bed very late and be often fatigued.
  • Your client may benefit from actively using strategies to help them sleep better at night such as limiting caffeine, being active throughout the day, avoiding screen use an hour before bed, and limiting distractions (e.g., turning cellphone off).
  • Sleep tips for teenagers is available at: https://www.aboutkidshealth.ca/Article?contentid=647&language=English