{"title":"The Adolescent Quest for Intimacy","authors":"Joy Johnson Msw, Rickenbach Ma","doi":"10.1300/J291V05N02_07","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"All adolescents engage in a quest for intimacy. Those who are hurting or in trouble often have not had the type of life that would prepare them for such a quest. The social worker-client relationship, then, is the arena in which the struggle for intimacy-and the search for identity-are played out. The sensitive therapist will respond to adolescents' need to complete this process, and to adolescents' alternating demands for closeness and distance.","PeriodicalId":262605,"journal":{"name":"Journal of social work and human sexuality","volume":"1988 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1988-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of social work and human sexuality","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J291V05N02_07","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
All adolescents engage in a quest for intimacy. Those who are hurting or in trouble often have not had the type of life that would prepare them for such a quest. The social worker-client relationship, then, is the arena in which the struggle for intimacy-and the search for identity-are played out. The sensitive therapist will respond to adolescents' need to complete this process, and to adolescents' alternating demands for closeness and distance.