'Can I (let you let me) leave?’ Therapy with the adolescent and his family

Jenkins, Hugh

doi:10.1046/j..1981.00552.x

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“…Therefore, as children grow and develop, it is advocated that parents can adapt their parenting style in order to meet the changing needs of the child, before, eventually, acknowledging the point at which their care and protection are seldom required (Jenkins, 1981). In other words, they move along the continuum from enmeshment towards permeable.…”

Section: Family Systems Theorymentioning

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Reviewing the Family Unit as a Stakeholder in Talent Development: Is It Undervalued?

Taylor

Collins

2015

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As elite youth sport becomes more organized and professionalized, the role of the family is increasingly acknowledged as significant to the development of young talent. High profile examples across a range of professional sports, both positive and negative, have drawn attention towards this important stakeholder. Accordingly, in this review we first examine the key issues in relation to family involvement in Talent Development, with relation to what is perceived as good and bad practice on behalf of the family. We next consider the key theoretical underpinning, Family Systems Theory, and how it may be integrated within elite youth sport. Finally, we conclude with a summary of where the current literature leaves us, and where we can progress from here. We suggest two possible inputs that could benefit the effectiveness of family involvement, with a focus on the family holistically, and a second on the role different family members can play. The importance of family support systems within the context of elite performance cannot be underestimated, with family playing a crucial role in an athlete's continued development to the top of their chosen sport . This support is just as important if an athlete does not make it to the level they were striving for as the family can be utilized as a mechanism to help deal with the set back, and encourage continued development at an appropriate level. Finally, such support can also be crucial to the maintenance of activity across the lifespan, making the family an important player in participation as well as performance-focused involvement (Horn & Horn, 2007). This review aims to highlight how family may play such roles.Significant others are integral to an athlete's social environment and, particularly for young athletes, family often provides the most important influence of all (Horn & Horn, 2007). Although family is now portrayed within a context of fluid and changeable relationships, with the boundaries ever changing and expanding (Cowan, 1983) the most pervasive of family relations predominantly comprises of parents (whether same-sex or heterosexual) and siblings (Rittenour, Myers, & Brann, 2007). Indeed, Brackenridge (2006) indicates that, without parental involvement, many young athletes would not be able to continue their sports participation. In similar fashion, David (2005) comments that, "when young athletes take sport very seriously and train over two hours a day, it is normal that parents become closely involved" (p. 215). In short, whether this is through transportation, financial assistance, relationships with coaches, changing family activities to fit around competition/training, emotional support or attending these competitions, parents are a key component of their child's development (LeBlanc & Dickson: 2006). In contrast, through labelling a child as gifted (whether in sport or another domain), feelings such as rivalry, envy, The value of the family in Talent Development 4 and discontent are likely to become heightened amongst siblings of lesser tale...

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Section: Family Systems Theorymentioning

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Reviewing the Family Unit as a Stakeholder in Talent Development: Is It Undervalued?

Taylor

Collins

2015

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Time: An A-Theoretical Framework for Therapy and Healing

Jenkins¹

2016

Origins and Originality in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice

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Leaving home, and the adolescent family therapist

Kraemer¹

1982

Journal of Adolescence

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Serious psychiatric problems of adolescence can be viewed as breakdowns at the prospect of adulthood, when “leaving home” begins to have real meaning, wherever the young person actually lives. Most young people seem to cope well enough with this process, but crises develop in those families where the growing child senses that it is too soon to grow up and leave, in case the parents could not survive in the “empty nest”. I describe how a therapist gradually develops such a point of view, and end with the case of “Jean” who broke down at the age of 15.

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'Can I (let you let me) leave?’ Therapy with the adolescent and his family

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

Reviewing the Family Unit as a Stakeholder in Talent Development: Is It Undervalued?

Reviewing the Family Unit as a Stakeholder in Talent Development: Is It Undervalued?

Time: An A-Theoretical Framework for Therapy and Healing

Leaving home, and the adolescent family therapist

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