Breaking Through to Teens

Download or read book Breaking Through to Teens written by Ron Taffel and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.