Parenting with Love and Limits® Overview: Helping Parents, Tough Teens, and Professionals Find Solutions Parenting with Love and Limits® (PLL), founded by Dr. Scott Sells, serves two major functions. The first is to provide parents and professionals with a step-by-step approach to parenting their teen (rather than abstract theory) that can easily be applied. Dr. Sells’ six years of intensive research resulted in a book for parents entitled, Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager, as well as the therapeutic system of care now known as Parenting with Love and Limits® (PLL). PLL's second major function is to partner with treatment professionals all over the world to make this proven treatment method available to parents and their teens. (To find a PLL-Certified counselor near you, please click here.) To read more about Dr. Scott Sells, please click here. The PLL Philosophy At PLL, we believe that the power to parent has been stripped away from parents. Instead of empowering parents to take charge of their teen's problem, teens have been overmedicated in record numbers or placed in boot camps, hospitals, or institutions. PLL firmly believes that parents can heal themselves and their teenagers when given the right playbook and set of tools. The US Census Bureau estimates that 11 million teenagers go beyond normal adolescent rebellion to engage in out-of-control or extreme behavior. To stop this epidemic, PLL presents a "love and limits" approach that is unlike anything else currently available. PLL's VISION is to help professionals and parents reduce or eliminate severe behavior problems in teenagers and children through the use of a step-by-step roadmap and the restoration of both love and limits. Our MISSION is to deliver innovative tools to professionals and parents that facilitate both the prevention and treatment of out-of-control teenagers and children through the use of the research-based PLL model. "PLL offers an easy to comprehend step by step method that lends itself to practice and dry run role-plays that increase success for when parents are under fire. PLL helps families determine what to do, how to do it, and rigorously coaches families for success." John Wells, Benton Harbor, MI., Feb. 2010. Help For Parents PLL is committed to helping parents obtain the step-by-step tools they need to stop parent abuse and acts of teen terrorism that they may be experiencing. PLL does this by first showing parents the concrete steps necessary to build an ironclad contract to stop the teen's extreme behaviors of disrespect, ditching school, violence, alcohol or drug use, sexual promiscuity, or threats of suicide. PLL will then show parents how to restore lost nurturance between them and their teen and how misbehavior is as much connected to a lack of structure as it is to a lack of love. Help For Professionals Severe behavioral problems in adolescents currently comprise one-third to one-half of all adolescent clinic referrals. Moreover, the prevalence of these behavioral problems is increasing dramatically; creating a need for services that are not available. To address these issues, PLL partners with various agencies through our "Center of Excellence" program to bring PLL to communities around the world. To find where our Centers of Excellence are located, go to our website for professionals at www.gopll.com.