Full Description
This book is for those interested in providing psychotherapy and counselling for young adults, and those who wish to bring a therapeutic sensibility to working with this client group.
Two main questions are addressed: What are the implications of providing a therapeutic ethos for young adults; and what, if any, additional training might be required for psychotherapists and counsellors working with this client group? In so doing this book explores what has too long been seen, at least for childhood, to be an urgent need for a therapeutic ethos. Such an ethos is to bring both therapeutic and educational sensibilities to bear on preventative and curative approaches to issues of young adults' well-being.
The chapters in this book, except one, were originally published in the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.
Contents
Introduction - toxic young adulthood: therapy and therapeutic ethos 1. The time it takes; How do we understand personal growth in an age of instant solutions? 2. Training for counselling young people - What is added by a child and adolescent specialism? 3. The narratives of parental alienation 4. What differend do you make? An imaginary phenomenology of working with a young adult 5. Finishing school, fishing and flourishing: Appetite, engagement and compliance in Daoism, Existentialism and Psychoanalysis 6. The golden cage 7. How might a therapeutic ethos serve young adults? - A commentary 8. Young adulthood, well-being and a therapeutic ethos: a case for therapeutic education
