Main description:

This book presents an innovative and empathic approach to working with traumatized teens. It offers strategies for getting through to high-risk adolescents and for building a strong attachment relationship that can help get development back on track. Martha B. Straus draws on extensive clinical experience as well as cutting-edge research on attachment, developmental trauma, and interpersonal neurobiology. Vivid case material shows how to engage challenging or reluctant clients, implement interventions that foster self-regulation and an integrated sense of identity, and tap into both the teen's and the therapist's moment-to-moment emotional experience. Essential topics include ways to involve parents and other caregivers in treatment.

Contents:

I. Theory
1. Attachment Theory in Development and Clinical Practice with Adolescents
2. The Legacy of Developmental Trauma in Adolescence
3. Interpersonal Neurobiology and Co-Regulation of Affect
II. Developmental-Relational Therapy
4. Developmental-Relational Therapy with Traumatized Teens
5. Attachment Styles: Transference and Countertransference Revisited
6. Getting Hooked and Unhooked
III. Interventions
7. Increasing Connection with Preoccupied and Dismissive Adolescents
8. Treating Dissociative Adolescents: Alternative Strategies for Healing Disorganized/Fearful Attachment
9. Including Parents and Families in Treatment
10. The Corrective Relational Ending