Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780765701077)

Working With Parents Makes Therapy Work demonstrates the crucial role of parent work in child and adolescent therapy. The Novicks suggest that restoring the parent-child relationship contributes to long-lasting therapeutic change in children and adolescents. With a multitude of vivid clinical examples, the authors provide a practical guide to clinical techniques for integrating parent work with individual child and adolescent treatment.
Working With Parents Makes Therapy Work demonstrates that parents and therapists can form a strong alliance to support the child's healthy development. Kerry and Jack Novick apply their revised models of the therapeutic alliance and two systems of self-regulation to help parents from evaluation to termination and beyond.
The book covers a wide range of situations, for instance, work with fathers, addressing problems of divorce and diverse family structures, and many modes of communicating with parents. Family secrets and loyalty conflicts; what happens when parents are troubled; the importance of parents in the lives of teenagers-these are all discussed in detail. Privacy and secrecy are defined and differentiated to clarify the meaning and importance of genuine confidentiality.

Author: Kerry Kelly Novick, Jack Novick
ISBN-10: 0765701073
ISBN-13: 9780765701077
Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2005
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.16w x 0.64d