Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy: A Handbook for Successful Practice with Adolescents
Adolescents are infamous for their rebellious behavior. Indeed,much of the focus of therapy and clinical intervention with troubled adolescents focuses on their presumed need to rebel against their parents as they define their own identities. Yet psychologist Vivian Center Seltzer argues that approaching work with adolescent clients with this presumption in mind is likely to miss the roots of their problem behavior.
Rather than acting out against parental authority, adolescents in need of clinical help are most often dealing with their disappointing comparisons with their peers—the most relevant others to them during this period of their development. Seltzer explains that it is countless interactions with their peers, at school and elsewhere outside of the home, that are the primary mode of psychological and social development for adolescents. Practitioners must recognize this crucial influence, and perhaps forgo traditional approaches, in order to better work with their adolescent clients.
Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy is a practical professional guide for how to approach and aid troubled teens by accessing the wealth of insight to be gained from understanding the influence of peer interactions on development and on behavior. Full of diagnostic categories and protocols for use with all types of adolescents, as well as guidance, tips, case studies, and offering a targeted model for adolescent group therapy, Seltzer provides professionals with all the tools they need to assist teens on their road to adulthood.

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Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy: A Handbook for Successful Practice with Adolescents
Adolescents are infamous for their rebellious behavior. Indeed,much of the focus of therapy and clinical intervention with troubled adolescents focuses on their presumed need to rebel against their parents as they define their own identities. Yet psychologist Vivian Center Seltzer argues that approaching work with adolescent clients with this presumption in mind is likely to miss the roots of their problem behavior.
Rather than acting out against parental authority, adolescents in need of clinical help are most often dealing with their disappointing comparisons with their peers—the most relevant others to them during this period of their development. Seltzer explains that it is countless interactions with their peers, at school and elsewhere outside of the home, that are the primary mode of psychological and social development for adolescents. Practitioners must recognize this crucial influence, and perhaps forgo traditional approaches, in order to better work with their adolescent clients.
Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy is a practical professional guide for how to approach and aid troubled teens by accessing the wealth of insight to be gained from understanding the influence of peer interactions on development and on behavior. Full of diagnostic categories and protocols for use with all types of adolescents, as well as guidance, tips, case studies, and offering a targeted model for adolescent group therapy, Seltzer provides professionals with all the tools they need to assist teens on their road to adulthood.

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Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy: A Handbook for Successful Practice with Adolescents

Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy: A Handbook for Successful Practice with Adolescents

by Vivian Center Seltzer
Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy: A Handbook for Successful Practice with Adolescents

Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy: A Handbook for Successful Practice with Adolescents

by Vivian Center Seltzer

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Adolescents are infamous for their rebellious behavior. Indeed,much of the focus of therapy and clinical intervention with troubled adolescents focuses on their presumed need to rebel against their parents as they define their own identities. Yet psychologist Vivian Center Seltzer argues that approaching work with adolescent clients with this presumption in mind is likely to miss the roots of their problem behavior.
Rather than acting out against parental authority, adolescents in need of clinical help are most often dealing with their disappointing comparisons with their peers—the most relevant others to them during this period of their development. Seltzer explains that it is countless interactions with their peers, at school and elsewhere outside of the home, that are the primary mode of psychological and social development for adolescents. Practitioners must recognize this crucial influence, and perhaps forgo traditional approaches, in order to better work with their adolescent clients.
Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy is a practical professional guide for how to approach and aid troubled teens by accessing the wealth of insight to be gained from understanding the influence of peer interactions on development and on behavior. Full of diagnostic categories and protocols for use with all types of adolescents, as well as guidance, tips, case studies, and offering a targeted model for adolescent group therapy, Seltzer provides professionals with all the tools they need to assist teens on their road to adulthood.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814740422
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 08/01/2009
Pages: 348
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Vivian Center Seltzer is Professor of Human Development and Behavior, University of Pennsylvania. She is also a licensed psychologist, certified school psychologist, certified family therapist, and a licensed and certified social worker. She is the author of The Psychological Worlds of the Adolescent: Public and Private and Adolescent Social Development: Dynamic Functional Interaction.

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Part I
1. Dealing with Development. Four Domains of Adolescent Growth
2. Dynamic Functional Interaction (DFI). A Revisionist and Sequential Model of Adolescent Development and Behavior
3. Adolescents Who Are Minorities
4. Adolescents Who Are Gay
5. Parenting Adolescents
Part II
6. Defining and Detecting Defensive Glitches
7. Understanding Specific Defensive Glitches
Part III
8. Getting to Know the Adolescent: An Introduction to PAR Protocols
9. Phase I: Basic Questions, Basic and Circumstance-Specific Auxiliary Protocols
10. Phase I Continued: Supplementary Protocols for Further Exploration
11. Phase II: Defensive Glitch Protocols
Part IV
12. Working Together: Peer-Arena Lens (PAL) Group Therapy
13. PAL Group Therapy in Action: Two Case Studies
14. PAL and the Professional: The Story of Desperate Davey

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What sets [Dynamic Functional Interaction (DFI) theory] apart and makes it fresh is the quality of the synthesis, the thought behind the organizational framework, and the amount of research, not just on American adolescents but in places as far-flung as Costa Rica, Scotland, and the Philippines.

also offers an exhaustive list of protocols for practitioners, including a step-by-step approach to the group-therapy treatment she developed called the Peer Arena Lens... Seltzer has a number of detailed case studies in

, and the book offers insights and tips gleaned from her own private practice to help practioners understand- and treat- their adolescent patients."-The Pennsylvania Gazette,

“An excellent guide for clinicians in their treatment of adolescents and young adults. Seltzer outlines a clear and practical road map to address both specific behavioral problems, as well as the normal struggles of transitioning from adolescence to adulthood. . . . An invaluable addition to any therapist’s library of treatment resources.’
-Daniel J. Sonkin,author of Learning to Live Without Violence

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