Article states that brief, effective therapy with adolescents can occur by integrating the structure of solution-focused approaches with expressive qualities of art therapy within the framework of adolescent development. The three fundamentals of successful adolescent therapy are addressed. (Author/JDM)

An art therapist working with disturbed adolescents discusses approaches toward dealing with their resistance to treatment. She explains that the method which seems most successful is one that accepts resistance as developmentally appropriate and she suggests that the resistance should be joined rather than interpreted as such. Other suggestions…