Therapy with Troubled Teenagers: Rewriting Young Lives in Progress

by Bob Bertolino

Book Overview

Solution-oriented therapy focuses on eliciting, evoking, and highlighting the strengths of clients, as opposed to their pathology and deficits. Here, Robert Bertolino explains his great success in applying this model to the treatment of adolescents. He describes how to work with these young clients to help empower them to change their life scripts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471249963
• ISBN13: 9780471249962
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Changed the way I work

If you are a counselor working with teens, this will provide fresh interventions when traditional techniques have failed. It greatly improved my therapeutic skills when I worked in an inpatient teen ward. An easy Five Star book.

An involving, optimistic, "reader-friendly" discussion

Therapy With Troubled Teenagers: Rewriting Young Lives In Progress by Bob Bertolino (Directory of the Family Court Services and the Family Therapy Institute at You in Need, Inc.) presents a unique and original approach to helping problematic adolescents and their dysfunctional families. The approach concentrates on emphasizing the strengths of teenagers and their parents, rather that exhaustively focusing on their pathologies and deficits. Especially recommended for school and community counselors, Therapy With Troubled Teenagers is an involving, optimistic, "reader-friendly" discussion of innovative solutions and help for treating teens and their families caught up in serious emotional difficulties.