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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784269203321

Autore

Taffel Ron

Titolo

Breaking through to teens [[electronic resource] ] : a new psychotherapy for the new adolescence / / Ron Taffel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Guilford Press, c2005

ISBN

1-281-12341-2

9786611123413

1-4237-7118-4

1-59385-547-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/00835

Soggetti

Adolescent psychotherapy

Parent and teenager

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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