Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy
Author(s): Vivian Center Seltzer
Adolescents are infamous for their rebellious behaviour. Indeed, much of the focus of therapy and clinical intervention with troubled adolescents focuses on their presumed need to rebel against their parents as they define their own identities. Yet psychologist Vivian Center Seltzer argues that approaching work with adolescent clients with this presumption in mind is likely to miss the roots of their problem behavior. Rather than acting out against parental authority, adolescents in need of clinical help are most often dealing with their disappointing comparisons with their peers - the most relevant others to them during this period of their development. Seltzer explains that it is countless interactions with their peers, at school and elsewhere outside of the home, that are the primary mode of psychological and social development for adolescents. Practitioners must recognize this crucial influence, and perhaps forgo traditional approaches, in order to better work with their adolescent clients.
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A practical professional guide for how to approach and aid troubled teens by understanding the influence of peer interactions on development and on behaviour
Introduction Part I 1. Dealing with Development. Four Domains of Adolescent Growth; 2. Dynamic Functional Interaction (DFI). A Revisionist and Sequential Model of Adolescent Development and Behavior; 3. Adolescents Who Are Minorities; 4. Adolescents Who Are Gay; 5. Parenting Adolescents Part II 6. Defining and Detecting Defensive Glitches; 7. Understanding Specific Defensive Glitches Part III 8. Getting to Know the Adolescent: An Introduction to PAR Protocols; 9. Phase I: Basic Questions, Basic and Circumstance-Specific Auxiliary Protocols; 10. Phase I Continued: Supplementary Protocols for Further Exploration; 11. Phase II: Defensive Glitch Protocols Part IV 12. Working Together: Peer-Arena Lens (PAL) Group Therapy; 13. PAL Group Therapy in Action: Two Case Studies; 14. PAL and the Professional: The Story of Desperate Davey Conclusion Notes; References; Index; About the Author
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- : 53301
- : 53301
- : 25 September 2009
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Vivian Center Seltzer
- : Hardback
- : 155.5182
- : 352
