Synopses & Reviews
Edgette proposes a unique approach to relating to adolescents in therapy. Focusing on establishing genuine and unaffected relationships between therapists and teens, this book offers techniques for clinicians who want to engage and connect with their adolescent clients. The goal is to bring about conversations that are candid and therapeutically effective so that teens and their families can find dignified and durable solutions to their problems. Case examples and stories from Edgette's own practice illustrate how therapists can successfully navigate difficult encounters, avert power struggles, and avoid dead-end dialogues that bore teenage clients and stall treatment. Thorough and lucidly written, Adolescent Therapy That Really Works shows therapist how to become partners with their clients, maintain their authority while also drawing teens into comfortable conversation, and read body language and facial expressions to better convey understanding and respect. Every therapist who works with adolescents and their families will benefit from the wisdom, skill, and honesty exhibited in Edgette's therapeutic approach.
Review
I can thoroughly recommend it to any educational and child psychologist who has frequent...contact with adolescents.
Synopsis
Edgette proposes a unique approach to relating to adolescents in therapy. Focusing on establishing genuine and unaffected relationships between therapists and teens, this book offers techniques for clinicians who want to engage and connect with their adolescent clients. The goal is to bring about conversations that are candid and therapeutically effective so that teens and their families can find dignified and durable solutions to their problems. Case examples and stories from Edgette's own practice illustrate how therapists can successfully navigate difficult encounters, avert power struggles, and avoid dead-end dialogues that bore teenage clients and stall treatment. Thorough and lucidly written, shows therapist how to become partners with their clients, maintain their authority while also drawing teens into comfortable conversation, and read body language and facial expressions to better convey understanding and respect. Every therapist who works with adolescents and their families will benefit from the wisdom, skill, and honesty exhibited in Edgette's therapeutic approach.
Synopsis
Edgette proposes a unique approach to relating toadolescents in therapy. Focusingon establishinggenuine andunaffected relationships betweentherapists and teens, this book offerstechniques for clinicians whowant to engage andconnect withtheir adolescent clients. The goalis to bring about conversations that arecandidand therapeuticallyeffective so that teens andtheir families can find dignified and durablesolutions to their problems. Case examples and stories fromEdgette's own practice illustratehow therapists can successfully navigatedifficult encounters, avert power struggles, andavoid dead-enddialogues that bore teenage clients and stall treatment.Thorough andlucidly written, AdolescentTherapy That ReallyWorksshows therapist how to become partnerswith their clients, maintain theirauthority while also drawing teens into comfortableconversation, and read body language and facialexpressions to better conveyunderstanding and respect.Every therapist who works withadolescents and their families willbenefit fromthe wisdom, skill, and honesty exhibited inEdgette's therapeutic approach.
About the Author
Janet Sasson Edgette, Psy.D, MPH, is a clinician in private practice in the Philadelphia area and the author of Stop Negotiating With Your Teen: Strategies for Parenting Your Angry, Manipulative, Moody, or Depressed Adolescent and the coauthor of The Handbook of Hypnotic Phenomena in Psychotherapy.