Treating the Unmanageable Adolescent: A Guide to Oppositional Defiant and Conduct Disorders
The book is solid throughout, including useful comments about the role of family and school in successful treatment, but the book really sings when it deals with the reality of the direct interaction with these youngsters in therapy, individual or group. The techniques offered for 'selling' therapy to the negative antisocial youngster alone are worth reading the book. It's a jewel written by someone who obviously has spent many hours nimbly sliding past the rage and distrust to touch the humanity at the core of all these young people. (John E. Meeks)Warning: Start this book and you may be hooked! Neil Bernstein represents the best of the new mental health mentors, the outstanding player–coach. His long and varied experience with oppositional adolescents combined with an ability to integrate psychodynamic and behavioral theory gives us a model text. This wonderful handbook for mental health professionals is so clear and sensible that parents, teachers, judges, clergy, and policy makers will be able to find out for themselves what makes problem kids tick and what to do about it. (E. James Lieberman)