Adolescent Psychotherapy

Counsellors and psychotherapists are faced with ever-increasing complexity in their work with adolescents. In this book, Bronagh Starrs offers an understanding of developmental and therapeutic process from a relational-phenomenological Gestalt perspective.

Bronagh Starrs is Creator and Programme Director for the MSc Adolescent Psychotherapy at Dublin Counselling & Therapy Centre, Republic of Ireland and University of Northampton, UK. She is also Director of Blackfort Adolescent Gestalt Institute and maintains a private practice in Omagh, Northern Ireland, as a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor, specialising in working with adolescents and their parents.

Introduction Chapter 1: Development, Shame & Lifespace Integrity Chapter 2: Contact Assessment Chapter 3: Ongoing Parental Involvement Chapter 4: One-to-One Engagement with the Adolescent Chapter 5: Separation & Complex Family Configuration Chapter 6: Complex Parenting Spaces: Adoption, Fostering & Loss Chapter 7: Anxiety, Depression, Self-Harm & Suicide Chapter 8: Eating Disorders Chapter 9: Alcohol & Drugs Chapter 10: Sexuality & Gender: Emerging Identity & Boundary Development Chapter 11: Sexual Trauma Chapter 12: The Diagnosed Adolescent Chapter 13: Case Management