Breaking through to teens : a new psychotherapy for the new adolescence / Ron Taffel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taffel, Ron.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adolescent psychotherapy.

Parent and teenager.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Guilford Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents groundbreaking strategies for psychotherapy with today's teens, for whom high-risk behavior, lack of adult guidance, and intense anxiety and stress increasingly come with the territory. Ron Taffel addresses the key challenge of building a therapeutic relationship that is strong enough to promote real behavioral and emotional change. He demonstrates effective ways to give advice that teens will listen to, get them to tell the truth about their lives, help parents reestablish their authority, and extend the reach of therapy by such nontraditional means as inviti

Contents:

Context: the new adolescence and a new treatment paradigm

First meeting: getting teens to talk

Foundation: what's necessary to build a helping relationship with teens

The core: healing the divided-self of 21st-century teens

Direction: advice as essential to helping teens change behavior and attitudes

The gray zone: the truth about lying to therapists and other child professionals

Treatment unbound: creating "flexible confidentiality"

The parent trap: childrearing advice as essential to helping parents change behavior

Stuck: how to conduct a "focused family session"

The village: bringing friends into treatment

The real in relational: challenging ourselves to stay three-dimensional with teens.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-284) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-12341-2

9786611123413

1-4237-7118-4

1-59385-547-8

OCLC:

568023062