Working With Adolescents and Young Adults: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach

ISBN-13: 9780230551411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 232 str.

Stephen Briggs

Opis

The first edition of this popular book won praise for successfully exploring the inner world of contemporary adolescence. The new edition now also examines issues including self-harm, depression and body image disturbance. Drawing on a flexible psychodynamic approach, it gives evidence-based guidance for both experienced practitioners and students.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Contemporary Adolescence.- Becoming a Subject in Adolescence.- Ethnicity and Identity in Adolescence.- Parenting Adolescents.- Containing Adolescence in Organisations.- Adolescents as Temporary Outsiders: Drugs, Offending and Anti-social Behaviour.- Adolescents with Difficulties in Achieving Separateness.- Psychotic and Suicidal States in Adolescence.- Leaving Home.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

STEPHEN BRIGGS is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Social Work at the Tavistock Clinic, London, UK.