1st Edition

Facing It Out Clinical Perspectives on Adolescent Disturbance

Edited By Robin Anderson, Anna Dartington Copyright 1998
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

Based on the wealth of experience gathered in the forty years of the life of the Adolescent Department at the Clinic, this covers a full range of clinical work with some of the most difficult areas of adolescence, but it also gives a conceptual framework of normal adolescence and traces the difficulties that arise when this goes wrong. Facing It Out presents new work which has not previously... Read more
Series Editors’ Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Intensity of Adolescence in Small Families -- ‘How Does It Work Here, Do We Just Talk?’ -- Psychotherapy with Learning Disabled Adolescents -- Confrontation, Appeasement or Communication? -- Suicidal Behaviour and Its Meaning in Adolescence -- Reflections on Some Particular Dynamics of Eating Disorders -- The Fear of Becoming a Man -- ‘Is Anyone There?’ -- The Scapegoat -- The Heat of the Moment -- Play, Work and Identity

Biography

Anderson, Robin