Teen Voices

Teen Voices is a book about adolescents and it outlines their difficulty to be understood and listened by the adult world as well as their desire to be cared and appreciated.
A variety of young adults’ problems and disorders – violence and bullying, eating disorders and other pathological dependencies, depression and attempts of suicide – are described using a systemic/developmental lens.
Adopting a multigenerational approach it is possible to shift the focus from individual disorders and labels to the search of family and social resources. The adolescent can guide the therapist in his/her relational world in order to see intergenerational open wounds and to repair broken emotional bonds. The model of therapy presented in this book is experiential: therapist plays an active role, being direct, authentic, emphatic, able to attune to the clients’ pain and despair and to respond positively to their hope and desire to change. The aim of family therapy is to solve adolescents’ issues as well as to elicit deep family transformations.

Maurizio Andolfi, MD, Child psychiatrist, he was professor at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome and Master Family Therapist. Director of the Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia in Italy, Editor in Chief of the Italian journal Terapia Familiare and President of the Silvano Andolfi Foundation. He was awarded for his special contribution in family therapy by AAMFT in 1999 and by the Australian Association of Family Therapy in 2021 and got a Life Achievement Award from AFTA in 2016. He has been lecturing all over the world, writing many books in several languages, the latest are Intergenerational Couple Therapy (co-author Anna Mascellani), Multigenerational Family Therapy and The Gift of Truth.

Anna Mascellani, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist and Master Family Therapist. Former Deputy Director and Senior Lecturer at the Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia. Professor at Università Pontificia Salesiana of Rome. She wrote numerous articles and volumes in different languages with particular focus on Intergenerational Couple Therapy and Family Therapy with Adolescents.

Narina Sidhu, Individual, Couples & Family Therapist in Perth, Western Australia. Teacher on the Multigenerational Family Therapy post-graduate diploma program in Sydney & Malaysia. Editor of several of Maurizio Andolfi’s best selling books.