The Adolescent in Family Therapy, Second Edition: Harnessing the Power of Relationships (The Guilford Family Therapy Series) PDF
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THE ADOLESCENT IN FAMILY THERAPY The Guilford family Therapy SerieS michael p. Nichols, Series editor RECENT VOLuMES The adolescent in family Therapy, Second edition: harnessing the power of relationships Joseph A. Micucci essential Skills in family Therapy, Second edition: from the first interview to Termination JoEllen Patterson, Lee Williams, Todd M. Edwards, Larry Chamow, and Claudia Grauf-Grounds doing Couple Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Work with intimate partners Robert Taibbi doing family Therapy, Second edition: Craft and Creativity in Clinical practice Robert Taibbi Collaborative Therapy with multi-Stressed families, Second edition William C. Madsen Working with families of the poor, Second edition Patricia Minuchin, Jorge Colapinto, and Salvador Minuchin Couple Therapy with Gay men David E. 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Donovan, Editor The adoleSCeNT iN family Therapy Harnessing the Power of Relationships SECOND EDITION JoSeph a. miCuCCi T G P he uilford ress New York London © 2009 The Guilford Press A Division of Guilford Publications, Inc. 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012 www.guilford.com All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher. Printed in the United States of America This book is printed on acid-free paper. Last digit is print number: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Micucci, Joseph A. The adolescent in family therapy : harnessing the power of relationships / Joseph A. Micucci. — 2nd ed. p. cm. — (The Guilford family therapy series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-60623-330-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Adolescent psychotherapy. 2. Family psychotherapy. 3. Family— Psychological aspects. 4. Parent and teenager. I. Title. RJ503.M495 2009 616.89′140835—dc22 2009014593 To Dominick Micucci (1920–1981) for pointing me in the right direction About the Author Joseph A. Micucci, PhD, ABPP, received his AB in Psychology from Cornell University and his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Univer- sity of Minnesota. In 1984, he joined the staff of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center, where he served as Director of the Adolescent Unit from 1987 to 1993 and as Chief Psychologist from 1991 to 1993. Cur- rently, Dr. Micucci is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Division of Psychology at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is Director of the PsyD Program in Clinical Psychology and has taught courses in psychological assessment, adolescent development, and family therapy. Dr. Micucci is a member of the American Psychological Associa- tion and the American Family Therapy Academy, and is an Approved Supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and Family Ther- apy. He holds specialty board certification in Clinical Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. Dr. Micucci has a private practice in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. vii Preface In the decade since the first edition of The Adolescent in Family Therapy was published, my approach to working with adolescents and their fami- lies has continued to evolve. As in the first edition, I continue to stress the importance of family relationships in promoting optimal developmental outcomes for adolescents. While adolescents are certainly growing more independent of their families, they continue to need the affection, atten- tion, support, and guidance of their parents in order to negotiate success- fully the challenges of the second decade of life. Problems may arise when family relationships have not adapted to the adolescent’s changing needs, or when parents have withdrawn their attention and support in ways that leave the adolescent feeling abandoned or isolated. In the first edition of this book I also emphasized that clinicians who work with adolescents and their families must be familiar with the trends and themes of normal adolescent development. A developmen- tal perspective is essential so that normal and typical behavior can be differentiated from atypical or abnormal behavior. Families sometimes overreact to behavior that is typical of adolescents in our culture, and in overreacting run the risk of exacerbating problems. On the other hand, widespread myths about “storm and stress” during adolescence can lead to reduced expectations and failure to provide the necessary guidance to an adolescent who is off track. My work continues to be guided by the fundamental ideas of family systems theory. Symptoms tend to arise, evolve, and persist because of particular interactional patterns that become attached to the symptoms. Over time, the symptoms and the interactional patterns become inex- tricably linked, such that they tend to elicit and reinforce one another. I have termed this interrelationship between symptoms and patterns of interpersonal interaction the symptomatic cycle. Effective intervention ix
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