Treating Troubled Adolescents: A Family Therapy Approach
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Please provide your name and email to get free downloads.
Downloaded 13232 times since
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)
Reviews
“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.
APA
Chapter eBooks
- Family Therapy: The Treatment of Choice for Adolescents | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 503 downloads
- The Tools of Therapy | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 385 downloads
- Treating Delinquency: Addressing the Premises of Self | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 292 downloads
- The Runaway Adolescent: A Therapy of Options | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 296 downloads
- Treating the Violent Family: First Do No Harm | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 302 downloads
- Incest: A Therapy of Boundaries | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 334 downloads
- The Suicidal Adolescent: A Stranger in Paradox | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 1808 downloads
- Disability and the Family: The Search for Competence | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 274 downloads
- A Single-Parent Family: A Disorganized Organized System | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 293 downloads
- Couples Therapy: The Last Frontier | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 332 downloads
- Follow Up | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 260 downloads
- Epilogue | Fishman, H. Charles, M.D. | 251 downloads
Everyone who makes a donation of even a few dollars to this site has our permission to put “Official IPI Donor” on their CV.