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―Because I Said So‖: How to Support Juvenile Clients through Change Louisiana Association of Drug Court Professionals April 1113, 2022 Jane E. Pfeifer, MPA Why do kids do what they do? ? Lack of control over their environment ? Brain development ? Different priorities ? Peer pressure ? To piss us off What’s up with the parents? ? Single parents ? Overworked/overscheduled parents ? Grandparents ? Overwhelmed parents ? Parents who have given up ? Parents who have their own AOD problems ? Parents who seem like they ―don’t care‖ ? Enabling parents/parents who are part of the problem ? Parents who are doing everything right A Word About Brain Development Teenage brains are much more influenced by emotional arousal, peer pressure, and risk taking than adult brains, because their impulse control and judgment is less well developed. Laurence Steinberg, a Temple University psychology professor and director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice: They think differently… ? To appreciate consequences of risky behavior, one has to have the ability to think through potential outes and understand the permanence of consequences, due to an immature prefrontal cortex, teens are not skilled at doing this ? Teens do not take information, anize it, and understand it in the same way that adults do—they have to learn how to do this They see…and process, things differently ? Adolescents are not very skilled at distinguishing the subtlety of facial expression (excitement, anger, fear, sadness, etc.)—results in a lot of miscues—leads to lack of munication and inappropriate behavior ? Differences in processing, anization, and responding to information/events leads to misperceptions and misunderstanding verbal a