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Tough CustomersBy 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!

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MQ Sept/Oct 2009

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Parenting in the Age of "Whatever"
Paradoxes of the Post-Boomer Family
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Featured Articles

Vertically Challenged
By Ron Taffel
Parenting and childhood today often seem to have more in common with abstract expressionism than with Norman Rockwell. But is this transformation of the nature of family norms and values such a bad thing?

Bungee Families
By Martha Straus
While some warn that the conveyor belt that once transported adolescents into adulthood has broken down, others insist the increasing numbers of adult children living at home is less about dysfunction than the changing function of family life today.

Foot on the Gas, Foot on the Brake
By Brad Sachs
Twenty-years ago, Jay Haley's classic Leaving Home offered a clinical blueprint for successfully launching young adults toward self-sufficiency. In today's brave new economy, it's time to rethink how to help families move past their developmental stalemates.

Hello, Good-bye
By Barbara Graham
As the boomers discover the joys and sorrows of becoming grandparents, they're putting their own generational stamp on a role that's as ancient as parenthood.

From Revolution to Evolution
By Richard Simon
Although Salvador Minuchin is arguably the most influential clinician of the last half-century, his work is light-years away from the routinized approaches that dominate today's therapy world.