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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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So if a young person is saying, “I’m going to try my 10th round of chemotherapy even though I physically am suffering. We really need to figure out who we are in the world and that takes your physical identity, your sexual identity, your vocational goals. The family dynamics are different though. Abby: Yeah.

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

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Keri: It does remind me, Dani, of that scapegoating phenomenon, when you’re talking about projection, where you see anger getting projected onto another person or a team, saying, “Oh, it’s the physical therapist’s fault or the oncologist is culpable.” I wish they were just a diagnosis. Dani: Totally.

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