I was charmed by Bromfield in the book on children and adolescents.
in reading the chapters on working with teens, I'm beginning to feel that Bromfield can sometimes be a little glib. It first struck me when Bromfield wrote that he'd happily helped a female teen client to a resolution of some of her symptoms -- & didn't include any more detail than that.
seemed like a salesperson's move.
then, in gliding over some of the case precis that he includes, I'm feeling that Bromfield sketches in the outlines of what would appear to be a successful move toward honesty with self (for the teen), but he doesn't dig in.
i'm catching myself remembering Shulman's textbook. Shulman says, "watch when things seem to be going well -- watch for the unseen trouble points..."
and Boyd Webb, who has seemed to be somewhat scolding in her book (compared to Bromfield) -- is maybe beginning to seem more realistic to me.
(gather yourself a lunchbox of sock puppets, but don't think that you will be qualified to be a play therapist, after reading a few chapters on play therapy) --
this sounded somewhat scary, after having read the Bromfield chapters on play therapy, but now seems to be realistic