Non-Emerging Adulthood - Helping Parents of Adult Children With Entrenched Dependence

"Never did a young person's journey to adulthood seem so long and precarious as at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The complexity of choice, uncertainty of outcome, reign of individualism and pressures of competitiveness can become a heavy burden. To many young people, the path to adulthood will at some point seem like a menacing labyrinth"--

List of contents

1. The Adult Child: Functional and Dysfunctional Dependence; 2. Non-Violent Resistance and Accommodation; Objections; Treatment Goals; 3. The Intervention; 4. Suicide Threats; 5. Helping Parents of Children and Adolescents at Risk of Failure to Emerge; 6. Addressing Entrenched Dependence in Special Contexts; 7. Survival Mode: The Adult Child's Experience; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Dan Dulberger is a marriage and family therapist and a psychotherapist. He is internationally recognised as an expert in Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) therapy and teaches in the Couple and Family Therapy diploma program at the University of Calgary, Canada.Haim Omer is a professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and the developer of the Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) approach for parents, teachers, and other caregivers.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Dulberger, Dan (University of Calgary) Omer Dulberger, Haim Omer, Omer Haim
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781108835688
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83568-8
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; MEDICAL / Public Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Psychiatry, Clinical psychology, Health psychology, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology