| Benefits to Youth |
| Learn to initiate and maintain beneficial relationships | Cultivate the ability and willingness to overcome barriers |
| Learn to better manage fear, stress, guilt, anger and grief | Develop increased empathy, understanding and consideration for self and others |
| Learn to balance dependence and interdependence | Learn creative and effective problem-solving skills |
| Develop new interests and hobbies | Increase levels of responsibility, respect, resilience and resourcefulness |
| Improved and consistent self-care patterns | Improved ability and willingness to communicate assertively |
| Benefits to Family |
| Establish clear roles and responsibilities for each family member | Develop a family culture of teamwork |
| Engage in more effective communication | Benefit from improved relationships |
| Increase in peace, joy, freedom, purpose and contentment | Experience a balance between independence and interdependence |
| Engage in more productive and beneficial resolutions of conflict | Establish clear and distinctive boundaries and identities |
| Decrease unnecessary stress, guilt, grief, anger and fear | Learn to play, have fun and enjoy each other |
| Benefits to Parents |
| Develop an effective system of discipline, including rules, limits, consequences and rewards | Develop effective strategies to promote positive/desirable behavior |
| Better understand the underlying factors influencing behavior | Develop effective strategies to reduce negative/undesirable behavior |
| Master creative and effective solutions to problems | Learn to become more proactive, responsive and less reactive |
| Facilitate increased responsibility, resourcefulness and resiliency | Improve your ability to empower, encourage and edify |
| Develop clear, realistic and beneficial expectations | Learn to better avoid and reduce the negative impact of power struggles |