Teens in Therapy: Making It Their Own: Engaging Adolescents in Successful Therapy for Responsible Lives

Name: Teens in Therapy: Making It Their Own: Engaging Adolescents in Successful Therapy for Responsible Lives
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ISBN: 9780393704648

ISBN-10: 0393704645

ISBN-13: 9780393704648

Edition: 2005

Authors: Richard Bromfield

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Strategies for getting teens to take responsibility for their therapy and their lives. Refusal to attend session, excessive confrontation, boredom, and acting out--these are all common problems faced by therapists who work with adolescents. Here, Harvard Medical School psychologist Richard Bromfield offers insight into getting teens to participate fully in therapy.

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.30" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Richard Bromfield, Ph.D., is a psychologist at Harvard Medical School and author of Handle with Care: Understanding Children and Teachers and Playing for Real. He lives in Brookline with his wife and teenage children.




Whose therapy, whose life? : fostering the patient's ownership of therapy



Neither voodoo nor magic : using therapy to help teens achieve change



Who wants what? : identifying and prioritizing treatment goals



Precious goods : valuing the adolescent



Truth or consequences : assessing and promoting honesty in therapy



Polishing your mirror : facilitating self-revelation



Tread gently : respecting self-esteem and its vulnerability



Lights, camera, action! : spotlighting conflict



You talking to me? : confronting patients in therapy



Work it! : keeping teens working at therapy



Word up : speaking the patient's language



Free to be : setting limits in therapy



All that jazz : educating, problem-solving, advocating : helping teens beyond formal therapy



Thinking outside the couch : getting therapeutically creative



Yawn : moving beyond boredom and the doldrums



Sow's ears, silk purses, and silver linings : finding opportunity in crisis



Failures, missteps, and lost causes : learning and recovering from the inevitable



Helping hands : working with parents