Counseling Troubled Youth (Counseling and Pastoral Theology)
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Robert Dykstra traces the roots of youth's troubles to a despair that reflects hopelessness about a meaningful future. But these sixteen- to twenty-one-year-olds can experience newness, surprise, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0664256546
ISBN13:9780664256548
Release Date:November 1997
Publisher:Westminster John Knox Press
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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PART 1 -- BECOMING ONESELF: YOUTH IN DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE Chapter 1: The Self amid Symptoms of Youthful Despair. Chapter 2: Object Relations Theory and the Borderline Self. Chapter 3: The Case of Stan. Chapter 4: Self Psychology and Pathological Narcissism. Chapter 5: The Case of John Turner. PART 2: COMING TO ONESELF: YOUTH IN ESCHATOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Chapter 6: The Eschatological Self. Chapter 7: The Case of Laurie. Chapter 8: The Case of Bobbie Griffith. The author suggests that today's youth reflect a widespread loss of hope or faith in a meaningful future. He uses the concepts of developmental object relations theory (from James F. Masterson) and self-psychology ((from Heinz Kohut) as conversational partners with the Christian doctrine of hope (from Jurgen Moltmann). He presents the concept of "the eschatological self" which suggests that the future coming at us is just as important as our past and present, helping us to understand young people's problems as rooted in the inability to keep past and present in tension.
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