HDFS 1060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Decompensation, Etiology, Gang
29 Mar 2017
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People who have problems want an effort to solve their problem. Problems of youth must see youth as residing within a developmental niche that includes family and a radius of significant others people are trying to decompensate. They try to manage their anxiety by engaging in behaviors that are problematic. General note on reactivity when faced with emotion-evoking situations (within the family, within the peer world), the tendency is for individuals to react in ways that subverts their own development. The source of the anxiety is important. It is the reactivity to the anxiety that leads to problems. The reactivity is an attempt to manage the anxiety/emotion. These become the legacy that is transmitted across generations and carried on over time! Note how much control and support it takes to not give into the powerful feelings of rejection, engulfment, abandonment, powerlessness. This is the focus of much of the therapy done with youth.
