How Young Adults and Teens Are Changing Psychotherapy
Parts 1 & 2
RON TAFFEL
Facing incredible life-stressors, young adults and teens are forcing us to reexamine the therapy relationship, across all modalities. Raised in child-centered yet distracted families, and intimately engaged in disconnected online universes, they’re challenging therapists to adjust their roles in often surprising ways. This intensive workshop will demonstrate how you can help heal the impact of today’s developmental paradoxes, match clients’ changing needs, and clarify some common millennial “facts vs myths.” You’ll learn to:
- Expand your use of effective praise, unvarnished opinion, nonhierarchical teamwork, and spontaneous fun—the role-flexibility now necessary to form a secure therapy relationship
- Strengthen your presence via carefully framed self-disclosure, storytelling, and use of metaphor to create ongoing themes for clients when life’s a blur
- Repair ruptures in the therapy dyad, particularly how to discuss microaggressions, implicit biases, mutual ageism, and class and racial assumptions
- Use digital pathways to discover clients’ unspoken selves, including incorporating text messages in sessions to lessen dysregulation, create mindfulness, and repair damaged relationships
Continued with workshop 309
Ron Taffel, PhD, is the chair of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in NYC and the author of eight books and over 100 articles on therapy and family life.