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Playing Hard at Life: A Relational Approach to Treating Multiply Traumatized Adolescents

Playing Hard at Life: A Relational Approach to Treating Multiply Traumatized Adolescents

Cohen, Etty

Paperback

Medical ReferenceChild PsychologyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1138005622
ISBN13: 9781138005624
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 9 2014
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.01 Depth: 8.91
Language: English

Playing Hard at Life brings contemporary relational thinking to bear on the psychodynamic treatment of a notably difficult group of young patients. Working with New York City teenagers who have survived the wars of inner-city life and Israeli teenage soldiers who have survived the wars of the Middle East, author Etty Cohen documents the extraordinary challenges of forming a treatment alliance with these shattered youngsters, of engaging them psychodynamically, and of working toward a viable termination. The result is not only a poignant record of courage and committment (on the part of patient and therapist alike), but also a valuable extension of modern trauma theory to adolescence as a developmental stage with its own challenges and requirements.

The heart and strength of Cohen's book is her vivid documentation of hands-on encounters with her adolescent patients, seen both individually and in group. Cohen makes plain that, with young people so horrendously traumatized, treatment assures a necessarily improvisational character. And yet, she argues, even in the type of pragmatic encounters dictated by massive and repeated trauma, contemporary relational theory provides a compass with which to navigate through the rocky shoals of the clinical work.

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