Breaking Through to Teens: Psychotherapy for the New Adolescence

The great merit of this book is the acknowledgement that adolescence, like many aspects of our society, has changed. Therapists, however, have been slow to.
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Breaking through to Teens: Psychotherapy for the New Adolescent

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Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. This was a very helpful book for me. Ron Taffel gave me some new ideas as well as validating many of the experiences and interventions I have used with teens in therapy. He makes a great case for why the old school therapeutic techniques don't work with today's kids, which is something I have found to be true. I liked that he does not pull any punches or mince words. He tells it like it is which is exactly what working with teens is about! His thoughts on family sessions, getting kids to open up and working out confidentiality are very relevant to the situations therapists face today.

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One person found this helpful. Working with teens today can be scary. I found this book to be very valuable in that it offers specific reasonable methods for dealing with teens, with their parents, and for family sessions.


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I enjoyed this book. It was extremely helpful to me and my work with students in a school setting. I'm also looking forward to attending his conference in New York in April as he will discuss working with the 21st century youth. The book was labeled as "used", but it was almost as NEW! The quality was really good, and I was pretty satisfied with this book. Also, I love the content--it provided a new, fresh perspective for social workers or counselors to work with teenagers. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful.

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    Breaking Through to Teens: Psychotherapy for the New Adolescence by Ron Taffel

    Alexa Actionable Analytics for the Web. AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. Amazon Inspire Digital Educational Resources. The great merit of this book is the acknowledgement that adolescence, like many aspects of our society, has changed. Therapists, however, have been slow to give up their traditional ways though they should also change to connect empathically to the new adolescent. The author, an experienced clinician, writes in a personal, friendly and pragmatic way with plenty of clinical examples. A simple common-sense wisdom permeates this book, despite a number of contradictions e.

    Paradoxically, such contradictions give credibility to the author as they add to the felt complexity and authenticity of the work with adolescents.


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      • He describes a relational-behavioural therapy that stresses the importance of an empathic connection with the adolescent along with behavioural change. The author specifically advises not to ask why and not to look for hidden motivations page but rather what, who and when. There is no mention of earlier upbringing or childhood experiences, but rather is focused on the here and now. Typically, he ends the first session with a patient by asking: Youngsters who refuse are referred to colleagues.

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      This is understandable in situations of danger but when generally applied, it dilutes the sense of inner boundaries that defines intrapsychic work in contrast to counseling and case management. While clearly non-analytic, the author — though very briefly and with no elaborations — refers in his discussions to fundamental authors like Donald Winnicott, Margaret Mahler, Melanie Klein, and Heinz Kohut, and devotes his last chapter to counter transference. Even though this is unequivocally a non-theoretical pragmatic know-how book, there is a lack of inner coherence.