Семейна психотерапия при нарушаващо правилата поведение в юношеска възраст
Family therapy for rule-breaking behavior in adolescents

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the clinical experience of the author with families of adolescents who display non-aggressive externalizing symptoms: truants from school, staying late in the streets, noncompliance at home, petty thefts, etc. The reduction of these symptoms is an important prevention of adolescents’ delinquency and social failure. The paper offers arguments for the application of family therapy as a first choice. A program of family interventions, based on developmental approach is described, aiming at changes of parent – adolescent relationships on the level of attachment, on the level of communication and problem-solving, and on the level of narratives and beliefs. ways to establish a therapeutic relationship with the family and techniques for the improvement of therapy’s effectiveness are discussed.

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