Psychotherapy with Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Fostering Autonomy through Attachment
Psychotherapy with Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Fostering Autonomy through Attachment by Elizabeth Perl
English | ISBN: 1593856512 | 198 pages | PDF | 2008 | 1 Mb
English | ISBN: 1593856512 | 198 pages | PDF | 2008 | 1 Mb
Adolescent girls and young women in therapy–even those who genuinely desire change–often are highly ambivalent and difficult to engage. This book provides fresh insights and powerful clinical tools for understanding a young woman's conflict between her attachment and dependence on her parents and her efforts to be autonomous, and how this may play out in seemingly treatment-rejecting behavior. Rich case material illustrates innovative ways to embrace resistance, rather than fight it, to build a strong therapeutic relationship that can get to the root of self-defeating patterns. The book is unique in addressing clinical work both with teens and with women in their twenties and beyond, who frequently struggle with unresolved adolescent issues.