The Evolution of Family Patterns and Indirect Therapy with Adolescents

by Giorgio Nardone (Editor), Emanuela Giannotti (Editor), Rita Rocchi (Editor)

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. 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".

126 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2007

About the author

Giorgio Nardone (Arezzo, 23 settembre 1958) è uno psicologo e psicoterapeuta italiano.
È il fondatore insieme a Paul Watzlawick del Centro di Terapia Strategica di Arezzo (ove svolge la sua attività di Psicoterapeuta e coach) ed è considerato la figura di maggior spicco della tradizione della scuola di Palo Alto.
È autore di numerosi saggi tradotti in varie lingue e di libri di carattere divulgativo destinati al grande pubblico.

Reviews

[Sandrine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un livre à lire absolument si on accompagne des parents et des adolescents.

Il peut être difficile de comprendre la logique des situations si on ne maîtrise pas le modèle de Palo Alto (systémique). Maus cela peut justement être l’occasion de s’y mettre :-)