By Rich Simon As therapists, many of us practice in two different worlds. In the first, we see polite, well-behaved, articulate clients with solid values. They engage fully in therapy, talk cogently about their problems, listen attentively to our responses, make reasonably good-faith efforts to follow our suggestions, and sooner or later get better. No wonder we genuinely like these people! 
By Rich Simon A thousand years ago, during the palmy days of generous insurance reimbursement, therapists could maintain the illusion that, since therapy was paid for by an unseen hidden hand, clinical practice was somehow untouched by the tacky subject of money. Even the style of therapy reflected this disjunction: 
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39It's not surprising, then, that our therapy models for treating teens are also outdated.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
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
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