Doing therapy with teens has always been a challenge--compounding the difficulty is the fact that today’s kids are bombarded by an all-pervasive pop culture...
Almost all our assumptions and expectations about teens today are outdated - from our ideas about the age of onset of adolescence and how peer pressure works to our understanding of how kids experience anxiety and the role parents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...
Adolescents rarely come to therapy of their own choice and often don't care to talk about their problems with adults...