ABSTRACT
This chapter begins discussion of the treatment phase of TAPP and this is continued in the following three chapters. In this chapter, aims and strategies are described, and emphasis is placed on discussing how therapists develop and sustain a therapeutic stance that facilitates working with the young person. A schematic overview is described of beginnings, middles and ends of the treatment phase. The emphasis on working in depth is discussed, particularly focusing on working with and in the transference and counter-transference; these are explored in detail and links are made between the approach taken in TAPP and recent psychoanalytic theorisations of these concepts. The crucial point guiding these discussions is how the therapeutic method and strategies are employed in TAPP to promote dynamic internal change and augment developmental growth.
