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Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy : a Handbook for Successful Practice with Adolescents.

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Adolescents are infamous for their rebellious behavior. Indeed, much of the focus of therapy and clinical intervention with troubled adolescents focuses on their presumed need to rebel against their parents as they define their own identities. Yet psychologist Vivian Center Seltzer argues that appro...

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Main Author: Seltzer, Vivian Center
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Adolescent psychology.
Adolescence.
Adolescents > Psychologie.
adolescence.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > Adolescent.
Adolescence
Adolescent psychology
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Practice.
Successful.
Therapy.
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behavior.
development.
from.
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interactions.
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Summary:Adolescents are infamous for their rebellious behavior. Indeed, much of the focus of therapy and clinical intervention with troubled adolescents focuses on their presumed need to rebel against their parents as they define their own identities. Yet psychologist Vivian Center Seltzer argues that approaching work with adolescent clients with this presumption in mind is likely to miss the roots of their problem behavior. Rather than acting out against parental authority, adolescents in need of clinical help are most often dealing with their disappointing comparisons with their peers--the most releva.
Physical Description:1 online resource (345 pages)
ISBN:9780814741023
0814741029