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

by Richard Bromfield and RichardBromfield

Book Overview

Push a teen too hard for change and you risk upsetting the fragile balance of trust, distracting from the work at hand, and possibly leading therapy in the wrong direction. Take too light an approach, however, and an adolescent becomes disengaged and bored, unwilling to work at therapy or likely to terminate therapy prematurely.

Therapists need to strike a balance between being respectful and directive. But how do you show understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393704645
• ISBN13: 9780393704648
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.3"