Breaking through to teens a new psychotherapy for the new adolescence

• Main Author: Taffel, Ron (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Guilford Press 2005
• Subjects: Psychotherapy > methods; Adolescent; Parent-Child Relations; Professional-Patient Relations; Psychology, Adolescent
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• Physical Description: xii, 292 pages 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-284) and index
• ISBN: 9781593851354; 1593851359

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 inviting teens to bring friends into sessions