Psychotherapy with Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Fostering Autonomy through Attachment

Publisher: The Guilford Press Number Of Pages: 198 Publication Date: 2008-02-11 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1593856512 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781593856519 Binding: Hardcover Product Description: 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 fighting it, to build a strong therapeutic relationship that can get to the root of self-defeating patterns. psth02.rar