Are teen clients entitled to confidentiality? How should therapists discuss confidentiality with their teen clients? What’s the therapist’s role when a teen client tells them they’re going to do something risky—say, sneak out of the house, use drugs or alcohol, or engage in unsafe sex?
Here, therapist Britt Rathbone, who’s spent almost his entire career working with adolescents and teens, gives us the answers, and explains how therapists can teach these clients skills that improve judgment and self-control.
“Indeed, teens are all too familiar with adults reacting emotionally and have a repertoire of well-rehearsed responses of their own to shut them out,” Rathbone writes in his Networker article. “But
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