Leaving Home: The Therapy Of Disturbed Young People / Edition 2

by Jay Haley

Overview

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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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138884458
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/23/2015
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jay Haley is widely acclaimed as a pioneering therapist and master teacher. One of the founders of family therapy, his prolific work influenced generations of therapists. He is the author of 19 books on many aspects of therapy. He holds degrees from the University of California in Los Angeles, Berkeley, and Stanford University. He has served as Professor at the University of Maryland, Howard University, the University of Pennsylvania and US International University. He was Director of Family Therapy Research at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic and Co-Founder of the Family Therapy Institute of Washington, D.C

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition ix

Introduction xi

Chapter 1 Ideas That Have Handicapped Therapists 1

Chapter 2 A Family Orientation 19

Chapter 3 Social Control and Therapy 41

Chapter 4 The Therapist Support System 57

Chapter 5 The First Stage 75

Chapter 6 Beginning Correctly in the First Interview 111

Chapter 7 The Second Stage: Apathy 134

Chapter 8 The Second Stage: Troublemaking 168

Chapter 9 The Process of Therapy: A Heroin Problem 199

Chapter 10 A Chronic Case 227

Chapter 11 Special Issues: Resolved and Unresolved 251

Chapter 12 A Model Therapy for Psychotic Young People 283

Epilogue 299

Name Index 307

Subject Index 309