Mental health professionals from across the US discuss the difficulty of getting at-risk adolescents to enter and remain in therapy, and some ideas for countering that resistance, focusing on
the concept of an alliance between therapist and patient. Among their topics are factors contributing to the facilitation, demise, and restoration of the therapeutic alliance; techniques for
enhancing engagement through negotiation; engaging adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders in therapeutic change, engaging adolescents in cognitive-behavioral therapy for
obsessive-compulsive disorder; engaging suicidal multi-problem adolescents with dialectical behavior therapy; and treatment engagement with adolescent suicide attempters. Annotation 穢2010 Book
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