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Why is working with adolescents and young adults so hard? Abby Rosenberg, Nick Purol, Daniel Eison, & Andrea Thach

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Patients that remind us of loved ones, patients that are often younger, really hard stories, complicated issues. The whole idea of holding hope seems also so much more complicated for younger people because the hopes that they had, the normal hopes are not likely to be realized. The family dynamics are different though.

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

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I recently had this patient in clinic who, for complicated reasons that I won’t go into, our outpatient clinic had to put limits on his frequency of visits with me. And we received this consult to assist with goals of care. Because we will have a different kind of countertransference to different formulations. And he was livid.

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