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EI Approaches to Treating Disruptive Behavior Disorders in Adolescents

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This chapter explores the use of existential-integrative (EI) techniques in the treatment of adolescents experiencing symptoms consistent with a disruptive behavior disorder diagnosis. It begins with an overview of the clinical description, incidence, and prevalence of these disorders in adolescents, followed by a description of their etiology. The author then reviews established treatment approaches as well as specific EI techniques that one could apply to the treatment of disruptive behavior disorders. Also included is a conceptualization of disruptive behavior disorders from an EI framework. The chapter closes with a composite case example from the author’s own practice.

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    The cases depicted in the book are composite representations of multiple client experiences where names, gender, and other potentially identifiable aspects of the case experience have been changed to protect client confidentiality.

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Shumaker, D. (2017). EI Approaches to Treating Disruptive Behavior Disorders in Adolescents. In: Existential-Integrative Approaches to Treating Adolescents . Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95211-3_8

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