Working With Adolescents and Young Adults: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach

by Stephen Briggs

Overview

The first edition of this popular book won praise for successfully exploring the inner world of contemporary adolescence. The new edition now also examines issues including self-harm, depression and body image disturbance. Drawing on a flexible psychodynamic approach, it gives evidence-based guidance for both experienced practitioners and students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137124685
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	09/26/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	418 KB

About the Author

STEPHEN BRIGGS is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Social Work at the Tavistock Clinic, London, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Contemporary Adolescence
Becoming a Subject in Adolescence
Ethnicity and Identity in Adolescence
Parenting Adolescents
Containing Adolescence in Organisations
Adolescents as Temporary Outsiders: Drugs, Offending and Anti-social Behaviour
Adolescents with Difficulties in Achieving Separateness
Psychotic and Suicidal States in Adolescence
Leaving Home
Notes
Bibliography
Index