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Overview
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.
"...provides clinicians with an effective method of dealing with oppositional, resistant, & disruptive older children & teenagers...special strategies for school failure problems, neurotic parents, excessive aggression, & drug abuse."
Synopsis
This book offers clinicians an effective method of diagnosing, managing, and treating oppositional, resistant, and disruptive older children and adolescents. The author's approach includes a method for engaging the adolescent in a cooperative assessment of his own personality and problems.
Booknews
Presents clinicians with a method of diagnosing, managing, and treating oppositional, resistant, and disruptive older children and adolescents. Bustamante, a clinical and child psychologist, understands oppositional states as an expression of the teenager's uncertainty about his own identity and alienation from his true self. His approach 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. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)