The Evolution of Family Patterns and Indirect Therapy with Adolescents

Synopsis:

This text presents a picture of contemporary family patterns that might produce problems of social and psychopathologic deviance in adolescents. It is the outcome of the teamwork of 32 researchers and therapists, members of the Centre of Strategic Therapy in Arezzo. This work was put together over a period of five years, where the research-intervention group met on a monthly basis under the author's personal supervision, to put together the data gathered from thousands of cases of disturbed adolescents with the aim of better the application of specific strategic interventions in parent-child problematics.

Description:

The purpose of this book is to point out clearly how some problems of contemporary adolescents can be triggered off and how they can be prevented or solved. It is meant to be a training text for specialists but it is also reader-friendly and can be appreciated both by parents and children so that both can come to avoid the traps hidden in relationships and their dysfunctional aspects. In other words, the aim is to ‘correct’ “the best intentions that produce the worst effects”.

‘"The Evolution of Family Patterns" by Giorgio Nardone had a strong impact on me for its richness, creativity and originality. I believe that the message of freedom in thinking given by the author will be the same for most readers of this book, both professional and non-professional.’
- Dr Luigi Boscolo, Co-founder and Director of the Milan Systemic Family Therapy Centre

Contents
Prologue The best intentions, the worst effects
1 The evolution of the family: From affective deprivation to overprotectiveness
2 Redefining the adolescent and his family
3 Contemporary patterns of family interaction
4 The modern adolescent

About the Author
Giorgio Nardone is director of Centro di Terapia Strategica (Strategic Therapy Center) and of the Post Graduate School of Brief Strategic Therapy Center in Arezzo. He is also professor of Brief Psychotherapy at the Post Graduate School of Clinical Psychology, University of Siena, Italy. He has published numerous articles and several books translated into many foreign languages. He is renowed as one of the most creative therapist and author in the field of Brief Strategic Therapy and Strategic Problem Solving: his systematic and effective models for treating phobic, obsessive disorders and eating disorders are followed by many psychotherapists all around the world. He has pubblished many books: http://www.giorgionardone.it/bibliography.asp