Adolescence is the years from puberty to adulthood which can be difficult time for people to go though. Having to be adolescence and also struggle with a mental illness has to be difficult. During our adolescence years we are changing so much with physiological growth, physical development, emotional development, and social development. Facing adolescence year’s causes lot of change to our cognitive, social and emotional developmental and I wonder how having a mental issues can affect that. I want to work with adolescence when I become a therapist and I want to know how depression and anxiety would affect working with adolescence and how I would go about treating them. Working with the adolescence population is something that I really want
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The article shares that IPT therapy for children and adolescence would be done once a week for about 12 weeks and also include having some parent’s sessions. The article shared that ideally the sessions would be no longer than 16 weeks to keep a time-limited structure. This I found interesting but I can understand because we want to be able to make that our young client has the tools they need in an appropriate amount of time. The article shared that interpersonal psychotherapy for adolescents has some modification which include having a mood scale each week, use of the closeness circle as part of the interpersonal inventory, a great focus on teaching basic communication skills, perspective-taking and interpersonal problem-solving skills to help better understand and negotiate relationship difficulties. I feel that this was a great site to come across because it makes sense that we would want to change the therapy just a little bit to better fit the adolescent’s need. I feel that IPT-A therapy will be helpful for me to use when I am working with an adolescent who have depression because it developed for their specific age group. I really like that IPT therapy takes in consideration all of the changes that the adolescent is working with. If an adolescent came in to see me during the first session I would want to have a parent there to help confirm that they child has some symptoms of depression and possible help with the time line. I would also want to educate both the adolescent and the parent that comes in on the nature, course and treatment options for depression. I would then want to help identify problem areas for the adolescent and then work on some problem- solving skill and new commutation techniques. Continuing to work with the adolescent on their level while providing them with tools and education they
The article shares that IPT therapy for children and adolescence would be done once a week for about 12 weeks and also include having some parent’s sessions. The article shared that ideally the sessions would be no longer than 16 weeks to keep a time-limited structure. This I found interesting but I can understand because we want to be able to make that our young client has the tools they need in an appropriate amount of time. The article shared that interpersonal psychotherapy for adolescents has some modification which include having a mood scale each week, use of the closeness circle as part of the interpersonal inventory, a great focus on teaching basic communication skills, perspective-taking and interpersonal problem-solving skills to help better understand and negotiate relationship difficulties. I feel that this was a great site to come across because it makes sense that we would want to change the therapy just a little bit to better fit the adolescent’s need. I feel that IPT-A therapy will be helpful for me to use when I am working with an adolescent who have depression because it developed for their specific age group. I really like that IPT therapy takes in consideration all of the changes that the adolescent is working with. If an adolescent came in to see me during the first session I would want to have a parent there to help confirm that they child has some symptoms of depression and possible help with the time line. I would also want to educate both the adolescent and the parent that comes in on the nature, course and treatment options for depression. I would then want to help identify problem areas for the adolescent and then work on some problem- solving skill and new commutation techniques. Continuing to work with the adolescent on their level while providing them with tools and education they