title: Some techniques for working with resistant families of adolescents.
abstract: This paper reviews some of the causes of resistance in families of adolescents being seen in conjoint family therapy. Two main types of resistance are described: resistance due to excessively high anxiety and resistance due to excessively low anxiety. Techniques for dealing with such resistance are then discussed: first, directive techniques designed to lower or heighten anxiety and secondly, strategic techniques designed to exploit resistance to a therapeutic end.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006963:Hyperphagia / Q000523:psychology; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011385:Projection; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent