Description
| Product ID: | 9780765704733 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Adolescence and Delinquency |
| Subtitle: | An Object-Relations Theory Approach |
| Authors: | Author: Bruce R., Ph. D. Brodie |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Juvenile offenders, Juvenile offenders, Clinical psychology, Clinical psychology |
| Description: | Applies object-relations theory to a population for which the treatment du jour is increasingly cognitive-behavioral. Taking his lead from the delinquent adolescents in his practice, the author presents a treatment approach in which adolescents are related to as people, rather than as transitory objects passing through a 'stage'. This book applies modern object relations theory—particularly the concept of intersubjectivity as articulated by Thomas Ogden—to a population for which the "treatment du jour" is increasingly cognitive-behavioral. Taking his lead from the delinquent adolescents in his practice, Dr. Brodie presents a treatment approach based on respect rather than condescension. Adolescents are related to as people, rather than as transitory objects passing through a ''stage.'' Rather than judging their feelings and behaviors as "aberrant," the author views them as having emerged out of the complex matrix of his patients'' lives. Adolescence and Delinqucney: An Object Relations Theory Approach is less an attempt to apply object relations theory to a particular population than it is an attempt to illuminate the seamlessness of theory and application. Theory and case examples are presented in a dialectical relationship, psychological theory having no meaning other than an attempt to understand real people, and the people we work with are unintelligible outside some systematic frame of reference. |
| Imprint Name: | Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers |
| Publisher Name: | Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2007-05-04 |
