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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
Adolescents.
Diagnosis.
Handbook.
Peer-Impact.
Practice.
Successful.
Therapy.
accessing.
approach.
behavior.
development.
from.
gained.
guide.
influence.
insight.
interactions.
peer.
practical.
professional.
teens.
troubled.
understanding.
wealth.
with.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: Forces of Adolescent Development; 1 Dealing with Development: Four Domains of Adolescent Growth; 2 Dynamic Functional Interaction (DFI): A Revisionist and Sequential Theoretical Model of Adolescent Psychological Development and Behavior; 3 Societal Designations: Adolescents Who Are Minorities; 4 Societal Designations: Adolescents Who Are Gay; 5 Parenting Adolescents; PART II: Defensive Glitches; 6 Defining and Detecting Defensive Glitches; 7 Understanding Specific Defensive Glitches; PART III: The Peer Arena Retrospect (PAR) Protocols.
  • 8 Getting to Know the Adolescent: An Introduction to the PAR Protocols9 Phase I: Basic and Circumstance-Specific Auxiliary Protocols; 10 Phase I Continued: Supplementary Protocols for Further Exploration; 11 Phase II: Defensive Glitch Protocols; PART IV: Peer Arena Lens (PAL) Group Therapy; 12 Working Together; 13 PAL Group Therapy in Action: Two Case Studies; 14 PAL and the Professional: Davey's Story; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; Y; BRIEF CASE EXAMPLES; EXTENSIVE CASE HISTORIES FOR STUDY.
  • TUTORIAL FOR PEER ARENA LENS (PAL) GROUP THERAPYAbout the Author.