Notes on validation, adolescence, and the work of becoming for everyone

Dec 20, 2023- If I hadn’t been a teacher of adolescents first, I’m pretty sure that my initial therapeutic encounters with teenagers would have gone sideways quickly. The young people who ask for therapy or can see that perhaps it might be of personal benefit to them come in, for the most part, ready to go. But the teens who come into therapy either court- or adult-ordered are quite often resistant at best and recalcitrant at worst. Recalcitrant – such a great word. Oxford La