Facing It Out : Clinical Perspectives on Adolescent Disturbance / Robin Anderson.

Author
Anderson, Robin [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
London : Taylor and Francis, 2018.
Description
1 online resource (195 p.)

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Series
Tavistock Clinic series. [More in this series]
Summary note
"Based on the wealth of experience gathered in the forty years of the life of the Adolescent Department at the Clinic, this covers a full range of clinical work with some of the most difficult areas of adolescence, but it also gives a conceptual framework of normal adolescence and traces the difficulties that arise when this goes wrong. Facing It Out presents new work which has not previously been fully described. The book will be vital reading for clinicians whose work includes work with adolescents. The Adolescent Department of the Tavistock Clinic in its long history has been engaging with young people and their families when the strains prove too great. In this book, staff of the Adolescent Dept examine in accessible language different clinical aspects of adolescent disturbance, exploring in particular the impact on the family. The chapters look at a range of severity of disturbance from adjustment crises to anorexia nervosa and psychosis as well as aspects of adolescent development in small families and in the formation of a sense of identity. With the exception of infancy, adolescence is the most radical of all developmental periods. In the few years between puberty and adulthood, one's sense of oneself must adapt to physical changes of size, shape, strength, and to full sexual and reproductive capacity. Socially there is the need to develop the capacity for intimate relationships and to survive the initiation into the workplace via the demanding examinations: all this in a complex and dangerous world."--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Contents
  • COVER; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Contributors; Introduction; 1. The Intensity of Adolescence in Small Families; 2. 'How Does It Work Here, Do We Just Talk?': Therapeutic Work with Young People who Have Been sexually Abused; 3. Psychotherapy with Learning Disabled Adolescents; 4. Confrontation, Appeasement or Communication; 5. Suicidal Behaviour and its Meaning in Adolescence; 6. Reflections on Some Particular Dynamics of Eating Disorders; 7. The Fear of Becoming a Man: a Study of Two Adolescents; 8. 'Is Anyone There?': the Work of the Young People's Counselling Service
  • 9. The Scapegoat10. The Heat of the Moment: Psychoanalytic Work with Families; 11. Play, Work and Identity: Taking Up One's Place in the Adult World; Index
ISBN
  • 1-78049-787-3
  • 0-429-91351-6
  • 9780429896917
  • 0-429-89928-9
  • 0-429-47451-2
  • 1-283-12528-5
  • 9786613125286
  • 1-84940-243-4
OCLC
  • 729167030
  • 741786479
  • 1226773512
  • 1031878515
Doi
  • 10.4324/9780429474514
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