1st Edition

Treating Troubled Adolescents A Family Therapy Approach

By H. Fishman Copyright 1988
330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 2017. In the first half of the century therapy for disturbed adolescents focused on individual dynamics or group treatment, and for the most part, did not take into serious consideration adolescents in relation to their families. Adolescent problems were regarded as due mostly to the internal difficulties inherent to the stage of life, and the family was seen mainly as a... Read more
FOREWORD, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, PART I: THE THERAPEUTIC APPROACH, 1. Family Therapy: The Treatment of Choice for Adolescents, 2. The Tools of Therapy, PART II: TREATING DISTURBANCES OF ADOLESCENTS: CLINICAL CASES, 3. Treating Delinquency: Addressing the Premises of Self, 4. The Runaway Adolescent: A Therapy of Options, 5. Treating the Violent Family: First Do No Harm, 6. Incest: A Therapy of Boundaries, 7. The Suicidal Adolescent: A Stranger in Paradox, 8. Disability and the Family: The Search for Competence, PART III: TREATING DISTURBANCES OF SUBSYSTEMS: CLINICAL CASES, 9. A Single-Parent Family: A Disorganized Organized System, 10. Couples Therapy: The Last Frontier, 11. Follow-up, 12. Epilogue, REFERENCES, INDEX

Biography

H. Charles Fishman