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[quote=Anonymous]The therapist shouldn't be reporting all the juicy gossip to the parents. If your kid thinks your therapist is going to run to you with confidences, then he won't develop a trusting relationship with the therapist and the therapy will be useless. A good therapist will want to talk to the parents, to get a rounder picture than what the teen might be saying, but that doesn't mean the therapist is passing on all the teen's secrets to the parents.

You might check into cognitive behavioral therapy (anxiety management skills, anger management, communication skills), depending on what the issue is.

Know also that therapy for teens has changed drastically over the past 10-15 years. Find somebody with recent training.

Also, if DC doesn't click with a therapist, then don't be afraid to change. DC has been in therapy for a year (major depression) and his first therapist, in retrospect, was a complete charlatan from the crime, punishment and bribery school that nobody thinks works anymore.  Moving to the second therapist has been like night and day. [/quote]

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