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R111: Psychotherapy for the New Adolescent

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Price: $59

Author: Ron Taffel

Almost all our assumptions and expectations about teens today are outdated - from our ideas about the age of onset of adolescence and how peer pressure works to our understanding of how kids experience anxiety and the role parents should play in providing effective guidance...

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It's not surprising, then, that our therapy models for treating teens are also outdated. This Reading Course brings together the groundbreaking series of articles of Ron Taffel over the past decade, laying out a coherent, contemporary model for therapy that blends relationship and action, based on the reality of what teens are actually like today. You will learn how to give advice in ways that kids can hear, how to effectively involve parents in treatment, how to deal with issues of confidentiality, and how to integrate family and individual work with the teenager.

Course Readings

Discovering Our Children: The Connection between Anonymity and Rage in Today's Kids by Ron Taffel

Confronting the New Anxiety: How Therapists Can Help Today's Fearful Kids by Ron Taffel

The Wall of Silence: Reinventing Therapy to Reach the New Teens by Ron Taffel

New Rules for Working with Adolescents by Ron Taffel

The Second Family: A Teen's Peer Group Is a Rich Resource for Family Therapists by Ron Taffel

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Learning Objectives

1. Define the "second family" and its impact on adolescents
2. Plan an intervention with an adolescent involving his peers
3. Identify the stressors for teens today that differ from other generations
4. List the 4 R's and create interventions using them