ABSTRACT
Information obtained from initial patient assessment, specifically projective techniques, provides the therapist with important and meaningful sources of data with which to facilitate and direct the treatment process (Alpher, Perfetto, Henry, & Strupp, 1990). The clinical vignettes presented in chapter 6 offer the opportunity to witness different types of distortions and variations in the content and structure of adolescents' representational worlds as a function of their unique inner pyschopathology. These inner maps (Horowitz, 1977) or representational schemata comprise invaluable sources of material that can inform, direct, and guide subsequent therapeutic endeavors. Moreover, information gleaned from SCORS and MOA material provide guidelines regarding the specific changes that need to transpire in the adolescent's representational world if he or she is to progress toward higher, more adaptive, differentiated levels of object relatedness.
