Adolescent Psychotherapy - A Radical Relational Approach Starrs Bronagh Dublin Counselling & Therapy Centre Ireland and University of Northampton UKPaperback / softback
Counsellors and psychotherapists are faced with ever-increasing complexity in their work with adolescents. In this book, Bronagh Starrs offers an understanding of developmental and therapeutic process…
Specifikacia Adolescent Psychotherapy - A Radical Relational Approach Starrs Bronagh Dublin Counselling & Therapy Centre Ireland and University of Northampton UKPaperback / softback
Counsellors and psychotherapists are faced with ever-increasing complexity in their work with adolescents. In this book, Bronagh Starrs offers an understanding of developmental and therapeutic process from a relational-phenomenological Gestalt perspective.Starrs shows how the adolescent's presenting symptom issues are statements of compromised lifespace integrity and demonstrates therapeutic sensibility to the adolescent's first-person experience. Throughout the book, the clinician is offered extensive relational and creative strategies to support integrity repair for the adolescent. The developmental impact of various lifespace contexts are discussed, including parental separation, complex family configuration, grief, adoption, and emerging sexual orientation and gender experience. Therapeutic responses to common creative adjustments are explored including anxiety, school