Main description:

Leaving Home presents a method of family therapy at the stage when children are leaving home. It includes a special classification of young people with problems, and tackles family orientation, the therapist support system, the first interview, apathy, troublemaking, a heroin problem, a chronic case, and resolved and unresolved issues.

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Contents:

Chapter 1 Ideas That Have Handicapped Therapists; Chapter 2 A Family Orientation; Chapter 3 Social Control and Therapy; Chapter 4 The Therapist Support System; Chapter 5 The First Stage; Chapter 6 Beginning Correctly in the First Interview; Chapter 7 The Second Stage; Chapter 8 The Second Stage; Chapter 9 The Process of Therapy; Chapter 10 A Chronic Case; Chapter 11 Special Issues; Chapter 12 A Model Therapy for Psychotic Young People, Jay Haley, Neil P. Schiff;