Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work by Novick Kerry Kelly;Novick Jack; & Jack Novick

Author:Novick, Kerry Kelly;Novick, Jack; & Jack Novick
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 678192
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

Working with Parents of Older Adolescents

Parents of late-adolescents are subject to many vulnerabilities. Conflicts from earlier phases in the child’s life persist, with the additional elements of the undeniable reality of the child’s physical, social, and sexual maturity. Some parents use their child’s treatment as the arena to play out these conflicts and pathological solutions to them. Persistent denial of the adolescent’s maturity often appears in attempts to control the time aspects of the therapy, with recurrent questioning of the agreed-upon frequency of sessions, duration of treatment, or vacation arrangements. Another arena for the operation of parents’ omnipotent defenses is that of money, with forgetting the fee, resistance to payment arrangements that make the late-adolescent patient responsible, pressure to involve the therapist unduly in questions around third-party payments, or even attempts to cut corners or cheat on insurance claims. It is not unusual to have parents of late-adolescents stubbornly insist on handling all practical aspects directly, such as payment, cancellation, frequency of sessions, duration of treatment, and so forth. They can allow their children to have credit cards, go on expensive vacations, make decisions on college courses, for example, but have great difficulty allowing them to be responsible for an analysis.

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