Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Depressed Adolescents

ISBN-13: 9781433838798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013

Guy Diamond;Gary M. Diamond;Suzanne A. Levy

Opis

Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) is the only empirically supported family therapy model designed to treat adolescent depression. This book describes clinical strategies for therapists, as well as the theoretical basis of the approach and the evidence base that supports it. ABFT emerges from interpersonal theories that suggest adolescent depression and suicide can be precipitated, exacerbated, or buffered against by the quality of interpersonal relationships in families. ABFT organizes the therapy around tasks that repair interpersonal ruptures and rebuild an emotionally protective, secure-based, Parent-child relationship. The treatment initially focuses on repairing or strengthening attachment and then turns to promoting adolescent autonomy.