Teens in Therapy: Making It on Their Own: Engaging Adolescents in Successful Therapy for Responsible Lives
Maryam Ali
Book Report Teens in Therapy: Making It on their own: Engaging Adolescents in Successful Therapy for Responsible Lives
A Brief History on the Author
Richard Bromfield, PH.D, is a psychologist, he is also a faculty member at the Harvard Medical School, and he specializes in therapy with children and adolescents. He is a writer and wrote several best sellers about children, adolescents and psychotherapy. This book is one of Bromfield’s many award winning writings.
Introduction
The book I chose to review for this assignment is entitled: Teens in Therapy: Making It on their own: Engaging Adolescents in Successful Therapy for Responsible Lives, by author Richard Bromfield. This book offers therapeutic advice and key insights into overcoming difficult clinical terrain. I selected this book based on my passion and fervor for working with adolescents. It is my belief that working with adolescents and being quite young myself would be a challenge. This book’s key focus is to help clinicians engage adolescents in therapy as most individuals are coerced into the activity, and are reluctant at giving their all during therapy sessions.
The backbone of the book consists of clinical case material, which explores real stories, and events that take place in most therapeutic sessions. Bromfield uses adolescents and their stories as authors of the book, as their experiences shape the stories making them vivid and noteworthy. The book 's content is highly comprehensible, realistic, intellectual, and honest. It caters to an audience of beginner therapist, as it explores the essentials of adolescent therapy without jargon or over reliance of theory.
Critique
“ Only when people realize what is in their lives can they make decisions to continue their old ways or choose active paths towards change.” (Pg. 9) this was one of the many quotes that stood out for me during the course of readings as it is one of the first concepts that all therapist need to
Book Report Teens in Therapy: Making It on their own: Engaging Adolescents in Successful Therapy for Responsible Lives
A Brief History on the Author
Richard Bromfield, PH.D, is a psychologist, he is also a faculty member at the Harvard Medical School, and he specializes in therapy with children and adolescents. He is a writer and wrote several best sellers about children, adolescents and psychotherapy. This book is one of Bromfield’s many award winning writings.
Introduction
The book I chose to review for this assignment is entitled: Teens in Therapy: Making It on their own: Engaging Adolescents in Successful Therapy for Responsible Lives, by author Richard Bromfield. This book offers therapeutic advice and key insights into overcoming difficult clinical terrain. I selected this book based on my passion and fervor for working with adolescents. It is my belief that working with adolescents and being quite young myself would be a challenge. This book’s key focus is to help clinicians engage adolescents in therapy as most individuals are coerced into the activity, and are reluctant at giving their all during therapy sessions.
The backbone of the book consists of clinical case material, which explores real stories, and events that take place in most therapeutic sessions. Bromfield uses adolescents and their stories as authors of the book, as their experiences shape the stories making them vivid and noteworthy. The book 's content is highly comprehensible, realistic, intellectual, and honest. It caters to an audience of beginner therapist, as it explores the essentials of adolescent therapy without jargon or over reliance of theory.
Critique
“ Only when people realize what is in their lives can they make decisions to continue their old ways or choose active paths towards change.” (Pg. 9) this was one of the many quotes that stood out for me during the course of readings as it is one of the first concepts that all therapist need to