Parents and Providers:

To Receive the Most Benefits from the Teen Online Program

In order to receive the most benefits from the COPE 7-Session Teen Online program, please encourage your teen to complete all seven sessions. Each session of the program focuses on a new concept and provides different activities that build upon the earlier lessons. The programs positive results are based upon the teen completing all seven sessions over a seven week time frame, practicing the skills, and completing each weeks assignments.

Each session should take only about 20 - 30 minutes of the teen’s time each week and each session should be completed in one sitting. Please encourage your teen to not only complete all of the sessions, but to avoid other distractions (such as television, radio, cell phone, texting, friends, etc.) while viewing and interacting with the program videos. This will help them absorb and remember the concepts and skills being taught. It’s also important for the teen to practice the skills being taught in the program throughout the subsequent week.

The program interface includes a page (Print Answers tab) that summarizes each week’s questions/answers and a button (Download Pdf) that allows you or the teen to download and save or print the program questions/answers. The teen can use these pages to help them recall the concepts taught each week or to demonstrate to you completion of each session.

Don’t forget that you and the teen have access to the program videos for an entire year. So once they complete all seven sessions, they can go back at any time during that year and re-view the videos to remind them of the concepts and skills taught in the program. 

The online, self-administered 7-session program is a self-help, cognitive-behavioral skills-building intervention educational program only and is not meant to diagnose or provide treatment for a particular disease or illness. The goal of this educational program is to teach children and teens how to recognize negative thought patterns, and provide cognitive behavioral skills and techniques that can be useful in modifying negative thinking.