Psychotherapy With the Younger Adolescent Girl: More Than an Intellectual Exercise for the Therapist

The author discusses the inappropriateness of insight therapy with interpretive interventions in the treatment of young adolescent girls. Lamb claims: They need help with strengthening their internal controls & in gaining a feeling of competence to deal with life’s problems. Two case examples of adolescent girls helped by this approach are discussed. 6 Refs. (NBB)