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Power and compassion : working with difficult adolescents and abused parents Price, Jerome A.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New York Guilford Press 1996Description: 196 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781572301412
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.89/02220
Summary: This United States-based book outlines levels and types of adolescent abusive behaviour and suggests how parents can regain control by learning to be more understanding and decisive. The book provides a range of therapeutic interventions to address the more serious and difficult problems presented by adolescents. The author explains the causes of parent abuse and describes patterns of family interactions when children victimise parents. The book provides specific guidelines for assessment and intervention, illustrated with case material. Post divorce problems and adolescent drug and alcohol abuse are among the range of topics covered. This text is aimed at practising therapists and other mental health professionals working with aggressive adolescents and their parents, and those studying child and adolescent therapy.
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Book Book Vine library TRO 362.8292 PRI Available A00671231B

Foreword by Cloé Madanes

This United States-based book outlines levels and types of adolescent abusive behaviour and suggests how parents can regain control by learning to be more understanding and decisive. The book provides a range of therapeutic interventions to address the more serious and difficult problems presented by adolescents. The author explains the causes of parent abuse and describes patterns of family interactions when children victimise parents. The book provides specific guidelines for assessment and intervention, illustrated with case material. Post divorce problems and adolescent drug and alcohol abuse are among the range of topics covered. This text is aimed at practising therapists and other mental health professionals working with aggressive adolescents and their parents, and those studying child and adolescent therapy.

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