psychotherapy

Describes the foundations of ODD--oppositional defiant disorder--and explains how to deal with it as parents, including understanding a child's need for power and emotional safety, sharpening communication skills, and disciplining wisely and preventively.

Sixteen-year-old Angie finds herself in her neighborhood with no recollection of her abduction or the three years that have passed since, until alternate personalities start telling her their stories through letters and recordings.

Traumatized by grief and guilt after her younger brother dies during a family vacation, fifteen-year-old Shiv is sent away to an exclusive clinic that claims to "cure" people like her.

In Radical Honesty, Dr. Blanton coaches us on how to have lives that work, how to have relationships that are alive and passionate, and how to create intimacy where none exists. As we have been taught by the philosophical and spiritual sources of our culture for thousands of years, from Plato to Nietzsche, from the Bible to Emerson, the truth shall set you free.

The author shares her experiences improving her relationship with her troubled teenage daughter, and suggests ways others can improve family relationships with the help of residential treatment centers and other teen-help programs.

Tanya's continuing fear of the Tobo Man leads her mother to start her in therapy at a mental health center, where she discovers how to express her feelings and eventually loses her fear.

Hiding his true nature as the Gamal, Charlie evaluates his life in an Irish village, his friendships with two people, and a terrible night when an unspeakable event challenged their beliefs about love, denial, and daring to be different.

Carrie Pilby, an antisocial nineteen-year-old college graduate whose only consistent link to the world outside her New York apartment is her therapist, begins a step-by-step attempt to appreciate the company of others and wrestles with questions about relationships and morality.

Reassures children who are about to undergo psychotherapy by answering their concerns about what is normal and what to expect.