Increase your ability to work with resistant adolescents who find standard therapeutic approaches artificial-even infuriating. You’ll learn:

How to avoid standard therapeutic pitfalls like excessive questioning, walking on egg shells, and relying on premeditated protocols
How to build conversations with teens that are therapeutic without sounding that way
Specific strategies to use with kids who burrow into silence, express their contempt for therapy, and provoke your anger
How to establish yourself as a trustworthy presence by introducing ways of bringing more accountability into the therapy relationship

OBJECTIVES

Identify how to avoid common therapeutic pitfalls when working with resistant young clients.

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