Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Depressed Adolescents

Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Depressed Adolescents by Diamond, Guy S.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781433815676.

In this book, the authors describe how to provide attachment-based family therapy to depressed adolescents, with a focus on its tenets and processes. They discuss the history and empirical support for the therapy, the context of other treatments and models and the family therapy tradition, the theoretical framework, and specific treatment tasks: shifting the focus from symptom reduction to relationship development, adolescent alliance building to explore what has damaged their trust with parents, parent alliance building to explore how current stressors and the parents history of attachment affect their parenting, repairing attachment, and promoting autonomy and interpersonal problem solving while maintaining attachment. They end with a case study for illustration. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)