Responsiveness in psychotherapy with antisocial adolescents.
Creating a "therapeutic situation" is a necessary condition for any type of psychotherapy. Antisocial adolescents often come from disturbed and chaotic backgrounds and present as behaviorally disturbed and deprived. One of the necessary ingredients in creating a therapeutic situation with them includes being responsive to them. The meaning of responsiveness, within a psychodynamic frame, is defined and its applications and limitations are explored.
D000293:Adolescent; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011379:Prognosis; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D014167:Transference, Psychology