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This chapter reviews the basic requirements, components, and process of training in adolescent identity treatment (AIT), emphasizing therapist’s characteristics. Requirements of training are basic knowledge of child and adolescent development, attachment theory, family systems theory, personality development, psychopathology, differential diagnosis, and experience with adolescent populations, families, and personality pathology. A working knowledge of psychodynamic concepts; a capacity to work with primitive, unconscious, primary process material; and a deep awareness of therapist’s own reactions, feelings, and thoughts are optimal. AIT training begins with didactics in assessment, diagnosis, case formulation, psychoeducation, contracting (individual and family), and treatment (strategies, tactics, and techniques) followed by group and individual supervision of a training case. For clinical research purposes, ratings of adherence and competence in applying AIT techniques are required.

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  1. New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical College, White Plains, NY, USA

    Pamela A. Foelsch PhD, Anna E. Odom PhD & Helen T. Arena PhD

  2. Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Practice for Child- and Adolescent, Frankfurt, Germany

    Susanne Schlüter-Müller

  3. Instituto Médico Schilkrut, Santiago, Las Condes, Chile

    Andrés H. Borzutzky

  4. Psychiatric University Hospitals, Basel, Switzerland

    Klaus Schmeck

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Foelsch, P.A., Schlüter-Müller, S., Odom, A.E., Arena, H.T., Borzutzky, A.H., Schmeck, K. (2014). Efficacy. In: Adolescent Identity Treatment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06868-8_7

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