
Treating Troubled Adolescents: A Family Therapy Approach
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
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Based on years of clinical experience, this book presents a clear, immensely practical approach to the assessment and treatment of adolescents with severe emotional problems. Using full-length case examples with incisive commentary, Fishman demonstrates how the principles of structural family therapy – including enactment, unbalancing, and reframing – are successfully applied to such issues as delinquency, violence, suicide, runaways, and incest. (254 pgs)
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“This is unquestionably the finest book ever written about treating troubled adolescents.”
Bradford P. Keeney
Today’s clinicians are discovering that seriously troubled adolescent are best helped within the context of their social environment, especially their families. Surprisingly, until now there has been no book devoted exclusively to a family therapy model of understanding and treating adolescents. This much-needed new book fills that gap. Written by the co-author of the classic “Family Therapy Techniques” and based on years of clinical experience, it presents a clear, immensely practical approach to the assessment and treatment of adolescents with severe emotional problems.
Dr. Fishman begins with an original and useful diagnostic tool for organizing therapy and shows how to identify the “homeostatic maintainer,” that is, the social forces that support a given problem. Then, using full-length case examples with incisive commentary, he demonstrates how the principles of structural family therapy—including enactment, unbalancing, and reframing—are successfully applied to such issues as delinquency, violence, suicide, runaways, and incest. In an important final section he highlights the special concerns of adolescents in single-parent families and show how couples therapy can significantly help ameliorate the problems of disturbed adolescents.
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Chapter eBooks
- Family Therapy: The Treatment of Choice for Adolescents | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 384 downloads
- The Tools of Therapy | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 290 downloads
- Treating Delinquency: Addressing the Premises of Self | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 203 downloads
- The Runaway Adolescent: A Therapy of Options | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 205 downloads
- Treating the Violent Family: First Do No Harm | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 208 downloads
- Incest: A Therapy of Boundaries | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 238 downloads
- The Suicidal Adolescent: A Stranger in Paradox | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 1567 downloads
- Disability and the Family: The Search for Competence | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 187 downloads
- A Single-Parent Family: A Disorganized Organized System | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 200 downloads
- Couples Therapy: The Last Frontier | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 229 downloads
- Follow Up | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 169 downloads
- Epilogue | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 165 downloads
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