Psychotherapy with adolescents

Between the adult and the child, there is the adolescent who experiences things differently. In clinical care, playful approaches are no longer effective as technical management tools for dealing with adolescents who are not yet ready for contact mediated exclusively through the verbal channel. During adolescence, it is common for adolescents not to seek psychotherapeutic treatment spontaneously, but to be referred by their carers or professionals. At this stage of development, their omnipotence, aversion to submission and dependence on an adult are marked. So how do you approach them technically? The psychotherapist is required to make important technical changes, which are not consistent with the playful approach or the adult's verbal report. This book arises from the difficulty encountered in psychotherapy with adolescent patients who are averse to childish techniques. In this book, the author explores this impasse, illustrating it with clinical cases and pointing to the importance of reviewing the technique used in adolescent care, suggesting the use of a mediating resource so that the results of clinical work can be speeded up and facilitated.