Presenting a developmentally grounded approach to treating a wide range of adolescent problems, this book shows how troubled teenagers and their parents can be helped to use family relationships as catalysts for growth and change. Case examples, practical discussions of the process of assessment and therapy, and straightforward clinical advice are…

This book acknowledges the contributions of Alfred Adler and illustrates the many ways in which Adlerian ideas underpin and influence contemporary therapeutic approaches. It brings together today's leading thinkers to address the practice of counseling and psychotherapy from a social-cognitive perspective. Contributors apply the basic ideas of…

Although psychotherapy traditionally has been thought of as talking therapy, written communication can be used as an effective supplement, across a range of theoretical approaches and therapeutic stages. Writing can aid clients in deepening awareness and enable them to use their inherent resources for becoming whole persons. For example, one…

This is a reference book for trainee psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and other professionals. The third edition has added recent changes in psychotherapy theory, practice, and research. Different forms of psychotherapy are integrated without an emphasis on one particular theory. Many of the recent therapies owe their basic ideas to some aspect of…

Directed at practitioners and students of family therapy, this book presents a treatment framework that is compatible with a wide variety of therapeutic techniques. Focusing on the development over time of the family life cycles--from marriages in formation to the "postparental couple"--this book explores the unique challenges and opportunities…

One of the most pressing issues that high school counselors encounter is the use of alcohol and other substance abuse among adolescents. This paper explores five major reasons that adolescents give for using alcohol and other drugs. It includes discussions on how peer interactions and the adolescent's search for identity influence the decision to…

Intended to enhance the work of therapists, guidance counselors, teachers, clergy, pediatricians, and others who work with children and their parents, this book sets out a wise and practical framework for more effective interventions with challenging children and resistant parents in school, community, or health care settings. The book offers…