ABSTRACT
The significance of parental involvement in adolescent psychotherapy is analysed and parenting strategy work is discussed. The author outlines key interventions with parents in situations where the adolescent has experienced trauma, demonstrating an alternative reparative approach in instances where parents have been the traumatisers. The impact of trauma, whether it is an experience which has happened outside of or from within the parenting space is explored. Case vignettes further illuminate this process and the relevant therapeutic approaches to trauma, depending on parental involvement are highlighted.
