Leaving Home: The Therapy of Disturbed Young People

by Jay Haley

Book Overview

"Leaving Home" presents a method of family therapy at the stage when children are leaving home. It includes a special classification of young people with problems, and tackles family orientation, the therapist support system, the first interview, apathy, troublemaking, a heroin problem, a chronic case, and resolved and unresolved issues.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070255709
• ISBN13: 9780070255708
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An important classic in adolescent psychotherapy

This book describes a strategic approach to dealing with very disturbed youth. Published in 1980, it remains a classic in the field.