In this original work, Robert Marshall demonstrates numerous approaches to helping hard-to-treat patients. He shows how to facilitate treatment with joining techniques such as mirroring, echoing, and reflection, and how the innovative concept of sequence therapy—a systemic analysis of child, adult, and familial resistance—and countertransference exploration can vastly improve a difficult therapeutic process, Resistant Interactions is a useful resource for clinicians with challenging patients, that is, every clinician. (510 pgs)
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Office Network Therapy
Office Network Therapy, which may also be called self-selected adolescent peer group therapy, is used with adolescents who are in a crisis or have massive resistances in ongoing therapy. Network Therapy counters the usual withdrawal of peer support and isolation that often are factors in adolescent psychopathology. The patient selects his own peers as members of his therapy group to come in with him when, and as often as, he wishes their presence. (10 pp.)
Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
Provides an outline of psychotherapy with children and adolescents that is based primarily on a developmental and psychodynamic understanding of psychopathology. The primary arena of play is explored, the role of parents is discussed, and common technical problems are related to developmental levels.(85 pp.)
Confrontation in the Psychotherapy of Adolescent Patients
There are many adolescent patients who are not able to navigate between the Scylla of excessive rigidity and the Charybdis of passive gratification. For them effective psychotherapy requires a therapist who is willing to help them develop skills in navigation by recognizing the dangers from both sides. When parents are unable or unwilling to challenge extreme irrational values, it it becomes essential that the psychiatrist be willing to step in and fill the gap.
Working with Troubled Adolescents:A Handbook
The field of adolescent therapy is alive and well. Innovation is occurring, professionals are questioning their practice and, theoretical developments are opening up avenues for the exploration of new approaches to treatment. Work with adolescence is a growing, changing and demanding field. Therapists need to know as much as possible about what others are doing and this book provides that opportunity. It will stimulate and encourage those who dip into it. (600 pp.)
