Psychoanalytic Reflections On Parenting Teens And Young Adults

Author : Anne J. Adelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351262743

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Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults by Anne J. Adelman Pdf

Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults explores the rich, multi-layered parent-child interactions that unfold during the period of separation and launching. While this is a necessary transitional time, parents inevitably experience feelings of loss and longing for the past as well as hope for the future. With honesty, humor, and originality, the book brings together the voices of psychoanalysts, speaking frankly, and not just as professionals, but also as parents grappling with raising young adults in today’s fast-paced world. The contributors reflect on the joys, regrets, and surprises as well as the challenges and triumphs they experience as their children reach the threshold of young adulthood. They address a wide range of topics relevant to parents and practitioners alike-indeed to all those who are closely involved with the growth and maturation of today’s youth. Offering both a broad perspective and an intimate look at present-day parenting dilemmas, the chapters focus on five main areas of interest: raising youth in the digital age, developmental difficulties, evolving gender norms, social concerns and, finally, the building of resiliency. Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults offers an alternative lens to consider the complex challenges parents face in raising today’s teens and young adults, replacing the customary notion of "failure to launch" with the concept of "holding on with open arms." The explorations in this book advance the idea that in the end, these struggles are essential for growth, buoyancy and wisdom. It will appeal greatly to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as family therapists.

Author : Gertraud Diem-Wille
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000336856

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Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Puberty and Adolescence by Gertraud Diem-Wille Pdf

Puberty is a time of tumultuous transition from childhood to adulthood activated by rapid physical changes, hormonal development and explosive activity of neurons. This book explores puberty through the parent-teenager relationship, as a "normal state of crisis", lasting several years and with the teenager oscillating between childlike tendencies and their desire to become an adult. The more parents succeed in recognizing and experiencing these new challenges as an integral, ineluctable emotional transformative process, the more they can allow their children to become independent. In addition, parents who can also see this crisis as a chance for their own further development will be ultimately enriched by this painful process. They can face up to their own aging as they take leave of youth with its myriad possibilities, accepting and working through a newfound rivalry with their sexually mature children, thus experiencing a process of maturity, which in turn can set an example for their children. This book is based on rich clinical observations from international settings, unique within the field, and there is an emphasis placed by the author on the role of the body in self-awareness, identity crises and gender construction. It will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, parents and carers, as well as all those interacting with adolescents in self, family and society.

Author : Shoshana Ringel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000462005

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Loss, Grief and Transformation by Shoshana Ringel Pdf

This book is a timely and relevant book for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts who process loss both in their own lives and in the lives of their patients, offering perspectives from a range of theoretical backgrounds, clinical vignettes and personal insights. This volume addresses the scope of grief and mourning between the therapeutic dyad, and carefully examines how the patient and therapist experience intersect and imbue the analytic space and the therapeutic process. The book examines personal loss of parents and partners, as well as loss generated by mass trauma through the lens of the Holocaust, the immigrant experience, the COVID-19 pandemic and the environment. There are chapters that cover how the lost other continues to live within one’s mind, and within the analytic relationship, how loss impacts one’s internal self system, and how loss associated with traumatic experience with the deceased continues to reverberate. With a unique focus on the therapist’s personal experience of loss, and how it shapes the clinical situation, as well as a broad range of perspectives on managing and working with loss in patients, this is an invaluable book for all practicing psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

Author : Salman Akhtar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429822438

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Silent Virtues by Salman Akhtar Pdf

Silent Virtues addresses six areas of mental functioning namely patience, curiosity, privacy, intimacy, humility, and dignity. Each of the areas is elucidated with the help of clinical, literary, and cultural material. The book introduces a series of novel ideas, including: (i) the distinction between patience as a component of the therapeutic attitude and the exercise of patience as a specific technical intervention; (ii) the description of the five psychopathological syndromes involving curiosity: excessive, deficient, uneven, anachronistic, instinctualized, and false curiosity; (iii) the description of four psychopathological syndromes (failed, florid, fluctuating, and false) involving intimacy; (iv) the discourse on the importance of humility in selecting patients and in deciding upon the longevity of our professional careers; and (v) the description of three forms of dignity (metaphysical, existential, and characterological) and the various ways in which they affect psychoanalytic technique.

Author : Jacquelyn Sanders,Barry Childress
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317334330

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Severely Disturbed Youngsters and the Parental Alliance by Jacquelyn Sanders,Barry Childress Pdf

Originally published in 1992 this was a much-needed book that shows how important it is to establish a therapeutic alliance with the parents of severely disturbed young people in order to improve the success of counseling with them. It also explores methods of how to ease the difficulties encountered in establishing such a relationship with the parents or guardians. In this title, the insights of psychoanalysis are used to understand reactions to parents and to develop an empathic approach to them through a new theoretical framework. Although in the popular view, a psychoanalytic approach is considered to be opposed to parents, this volume is testimony to the unique contribution such an approach can make to the support of parents and, thereby, their children. A major and unique emphasis of Severely Disturbed Youngsters is placed on exploring the feelings, reactions, and sensitivities of the therapist that can interfere with this important aspect of treatment. The thrust of the book is to put the understanding of this interference in a theoretical context and to indicate ways of coping with the interference.

Author : Ron Taffel
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781606239452

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Breaking Through to Teens by Ron Taffel Pdf

This book presents groundbreaking strategies for psychotherapy with today's teens, for whom high-risk behavior, lack of adult guidance, and intense anxiety and stress increasingly come with the territory. Ron Taffel addresses the key challenge of building a therapeutic relationship that is strong enough to promote real behavioral and emotional change. He demonstrates effective ways to give advice that teens will listen to, get them to tell the truth about their lives, help parents reestablish their authority, and extend the reach of therapy by such nontraditional means as inviting teens to bring friends into sessions.

Author : Karen J. Gilmore,Pamela Meersand
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199899227

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The Little Book of Child and Adolescent Development by Karen J. Gilmore,Pamela Meersand Pdf

The Little Book of Child and Adolescent Development presents a modern, psychoanalytically-informed summary of how the mind develops from infancy through young adulthood. It is a comprehensive work that integrates analytic theories with a contemporary systems model of development, and also draws on scholarly research from neighboring fields. Key models discussed include attachment theory, intersubjective theory, cognitive development theory, and infancy research. This book's contemporary approach to development makes it relevant to such timely topics as bullying, the experience of LGBT youth, preadolescent and adolescent use of the internet, and the struggles of young (emerging) adults in modern society. Written to optimize ease of use for the busy clinician, key clinical points are summarized at the end of each chapter, and a glossary of important concepts and terminology is also included. The text will be valuable for psychiatric residents, psychoanalytic candidates and faculty, and graduate students who would benefit from a quick and concise review of the developmental trajectory.

Author : Judith S. Kestenberg,Esther Robbins
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Adolescent psychology
ISBN : UCSC:32106000112315

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Children and Parents by Judith S. Kestenberg,Esther Robbins Pdf

Author : Kerry Kelly Novick,Jack Novick
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780765701121

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Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work by Kerry Kelly Novick,Jack Novick Pdf

Basing their work on the idea that psychoanalytic therapy and technique require more rather than less from the therapist, the Novicks explore the crucial role of parents' work in child and adolescent treatment. They show that child and adolescent therapies have two goals_resto...

Author : Kate Figes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780141928487

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The Terrible Teens by Kate Figes Pdf

Living with teenagers can be more stressful and emotional than anything parents have previously experienced. While there are dozens of books on development in young children, books on adolescent development and how to cope are almost non-existent. Kate Figes redresses the balance. Based on the advice of experts and interviews with parents and their children, this informed and practical analysis of the difficulties young people face growing up today will be essential reading for any parent.

Author : Nadir Baksh,Laurie Murphy
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781935387459

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You Don't Know Anything...! by Nadir Baksh,Laurie Murphy Pdf

Help Your Teenagers and Yourself to a Saner, Safer Life. This book offers immediate and clear help to parents, family members and teachers who are angry, confused, frustrated, sad, or at their wit’s end in dealing with their teenagers. Topics include: • Understanding the real anxieties of 21st-century teenagers • Creating and maintaining boundaries (and consequences) that work • What to do about lying and manipulation • Sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll – their choices and your guidance • Maximizing their safety in: driving, working, use of the Internet ... etc. • Helping kids cope with societal and peer pressures The blinders have been on long enough! This book allows readers to see exactly what is going on in teenagers’ thoughts, actions and lives, and offers workable ways of dealing with behavioral issues. – Susie Emerson, R.N. With strong conviction, the authors present compelling reasons for establishing a solid parental presence in the life of our children. As parents of four, we found this book to provide direct and practical advice. Readers will walk away feeling more competent, capable, and definitely well supported in their role as parents. – Dominick Scotto, STM (Sacred Theology), MSW, high school teacher; and Pandora Scotto, MSW, LCSW This concise treatise on the highly emotional, chaotic and downright frightening teenage years defines and enumerates the responsibilities and actions of both parents and teenagers; it is easily read and eminently useful. – John Blackard, D.D.S. This book gives parents a no-holds-barred approach to keeping a step ahead of their teen, and by that I mean keeping them safe, establishing boundaries, and enforcing rules until they develop the proper skills necessary for independence. – Uwe W. Geertz, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology

Author : John A. McKinnon
Publisher : Lantern Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781590562345

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To Change a Mind by John A. McKinnon Pdf

In this companion to his first book, An Unchanged Mind, Dr. McKinnon provides invaluable advice to all parents of teenagers and young adults. Using case studies gathered from his years helping parents with troubled adolescents, the author explores the ways that adolescent development can be derailed in today's complex culture and how parents can prevent this from happening in the first place. Dr. McKinnon writes about how parents need to recognize their children as individuals, with their own feelings and opinions, as they start to establish their separate identities as young people and begin to negotiate their way through high school and beyond. He also makes clear that parents must continue to establish limits. These allow children to flourish and further their goals within boundaries that enable them to learn the consequences of their actions (both good and bad), thus providing a fundamental lesson of being an adult. The book explains that parental recognition and limit-setting work together to promote maturity. Packed with examples and sensible and practical advice for parents of pre-teens and teenagers, To Change a Mind is an essential guidebook for parents seeking to make their lives--and the lives of their children--richer and more fulfilling, as the family navigates together the potentially treacherous seas of adolescence.

Author : Del Loewenthal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000630251

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Toxic Young Adulthood by Del Loewenthal Pdf

This book is for those interested in providing psychotherapy and counselling for young adults, and those who wish to bring a therapeutic sensibility to working with this client group. Two main questions are addressed: What are the implications of providing a therapeutic ethos for young adults; and what, if any, additional training might be required for psychotherapists and counsellors working with this client group? In so doing this book explores what has too long been seen, at least for childhood, to be an urgent need for a therapeutic ethos. Such an ethos is to bring both therapeutic and educational sensibilities to bear on preventative and curative approaches to issues of young adults’ well-being. The chapters in this book, except one, were originally published in the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.

Author : Bronagh Starrs
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781003810018

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Adolescent Configuration Styles, Parenting and Psychotherapy by Bronagh Starrs Pdf

Mental health has become the principal concern as adolescents struggle with a host of issues such as anxiety, academic pressures, gender, substances, social media, complicated family compositions and a vulnerable planet. This book provides psychotherapists with a clear theoretical understanding and practical application for navigating the increasingly complex adolescent experience as young people adjust and respond to the present- day world. Starrs presents a contemporary understanding of adolescence, identifying three principal character styles and offering experience- near descriptions of the modernday adolescent. The author demonstrates how each configuration style in adolescence elicits a predictable response in parents and examines the challenges and dilemmas facing parents in today’s world, highlighting the patterns and pitfalls which often render parental interventions ineffective. Developmentally attuned parenting strategies are outlined, pertaining to each configuration style. The in depth analysis of adolescent process and parental response has implications for the therapeutic encounter. Intervention focuses both on one- to- one work with the adolescent and parental involvement. The complexity of working with adolescents and parents who demonstrate psychological entrenchment is also outlined. This highly readable, original and exceptional contribution is suitable for psychotherapists, allied professionals and parents alike.

Author : M. Hossein Etezady,Mary Davis
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780765709028

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Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting by M. Hossein Etezady,Mary Davis Pdf

Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting addresses the reasons for focusing on understanding a child’s emotional world as a way of becoming a more effective parent. The book also addresses techniques for assisting parents to accomplish this understanding.