Treating the Disruptive Adolescent: Finding the Real Self Behind Oppositional Defiant Disorders
Product Description
This book offers clinicians an effective method of diagnosing, managing, and treating oppositional, resistant, and disruptive older children and adolescents. Dr. Bustamante understands oppositional states as an expression of the teenager’s uncertainty about his own identity and alienation from his true self. Attempts to curb rebellion that rely solely on firm behavioral limits will fail, because they thwart rather than promote development and disregard the real meaning of the disruptive behavior. The author’s approach is a sensitive and creative alternative to treating this difficult population, one that offers hope and attainable goals. It includes a method for engaging the adolescent in a cooperative assessment of his own personality and problems, a three-step intervention to reverse the core symptoms of ODD, and a parenting component based on natural consequences. Special intervention strategies for school failure, excessive aggression, negative peer influences, and drug involvement are presented. The heart of the treatment involves forming an alliance with the adolescent and turning failure into growth. Bustamante’s commitment to this challenge, his compassion for his clients, and his clinical skill combine to make this a compelling and essential book for those working with adolescents in general and defiant youth in particular.
Treating the Disruptive Adolescent: Finding the Real Self Behind Oppositional Defiant Disorders
Where's Kevin now? said,
Wrote on September 19, 2010 @ 6:32 pm
What a horror it is to realize that you are losing your child to drugs or gangs or guns. For parents who are exhausted, frightened by their disruptive teens, for parents who are lost, devastated by their children’s behaviors,for those who have gone the traditional therapy route only to find themselves more alientated than ever from their children–and broke to boot– Eduardo Bustamante’s book is a must. This is a book that offers new and effective approaches to adolescent angst, approaches that WORK, that make way for reconciliation between parent and teen. Such a reconnection is vital to the health and future of your child. Bustamante offers the map.
I speak from experience! This book is a must read.
Rating: 5 / 5