Working With Adolescents and Young Adults - A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach

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.>

List of contents

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.

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Briggs
• Assisted by: Stephen Frosh (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.09.2008
• EAN: 9780230551411
• ISBN: 978-0-230-55141-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Basic Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy; Basic Texts in Counselling and; Basic Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy; Basic Texts in Counselling and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; B, Medical counselling, Psychotherapy, Social Sciences, Counseling, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Counseling Psychology, exceptionalnursing;Containing;depression;identity;nursing