The Back To Basics Workbook is designed to accompany the Program book. This workbook takes parents and their teens on a 6 week journey to fully implement the principals laid out in the book. Each week the families are required to complete specific tasks. Questions are posed that allow for the task to be completed. Each week also has a reflection question and an additional task to help families take the next step and prepare for the following week. Additionally the introduction, weekly lessons, and conclusion pages all have a QR code printed on them. A branded Back to Basics app is available for iOS and Android devices that allows these codes to be scanned to access instructional videos presented by Christopher Taylor. The back of the workbook contains all of the templates required to complete the tasks.

Author Biography

After graduating with my BA I began working at a group home for emotionally disturbed adolescent foster kids. I quickly became one of the best at changing behavior and connecting with kids emotionally. 3 years later I graduate with a masters in clinical psychology and began doing in home therapy with teens who where violent, aggressive, and defiant and in risk of being removed from their family home. After a year I was selected to lead a program that aimed to change the way foster kids where received into the system. The program served the county's hardest to reach kids. I was able to stabilize the most behaviorally challenged kids in 60 days and set them on a path to success. I went on from there to direct an academic residential program that took kids form challenging home lives and motivated them to perform well academically to achieve scholarships to private high schools and major colleges and universities. From there I began managing a program for teens and families that where international refugees from war torn areas of the world. In that program I was able to integrate differing cultures into american society while still maintaining their own cultural identities. After that I went on to Manage a program in conjunction with the state of califonia to change the way mental health services and residential treatment services where delivered to teens and their families. This eventually led to me launching my own private practice servicing teens and families. I have written all of my experience, training, and personal approach into the back to basics program. This is what I have used over the past 14 years of my career to change the lives of some of the most challenging teens and bring hope and stability back to their family.