The world of an adolescent is now so powerfully defined by systemic forces other than home the peer network, pop culture, school and neighborhood ethos that working with the family alone is rarely powerful enough to effect change in the life of a troubled teenager. (psychotherapynetworker.org)
The world of an adolescent is now so powerfully defined by systemic forces other than home that working with the family alone is rarely powerful enough to effect change in the life of a troubled teenager. (psychotherapynetworker.org)
At a time when external systemic forces peer groups and mass culture are at least as powerful in defining the adolescent's world as the internal family system, the old primary family system, once figuring so dramatically in therapy, has become a shadow of its former self, often exerting less pull on the teen's heart, mind and hormones than the second family of the peer group. (psychotherapynetworker.org)