Working with Adolescents and Young Adults: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach

Basic Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy

by Stephen Briggs, Stephen Frosh (Editor)

Recent research suggests that the mental health of today's adolescents is deteriorating just as they find themselves increasingly demonized in the popular press. The first edition of Stephen Briggs' Working with Adolescents won praise for its success in introducing the reader to the inner world of contemporary adolescence. This second edition builds on that strength, including new material on adolescent depression, the changing pressures on young people from ethnic minorities post 9/11 and the latest work on eating disorders and body image, and showing how a psychodynamic approach can be used flexibly in the context of institutional emphasis on evidence-based practice and brief treatments. It will be essential reading for students and qualified practitioners across the caring professions.

232 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2008

About the author

Stephen Briggs is Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Work Research in UEL's School of Social Sciences Media and Cultural Studies (SSMCS) and Vice Dean and Consultant Social Worker in the Tavistock Clinic’s Adolescent Department.

Please note that there is a separate Stephen^Briggs who narrates many Discworld audiobooks.