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Peer-Impact Diagnosis and TherapyA Handbook for Successful Practice with Adolescents$
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Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy: A Handbook for Successful Practice with Adolescents

Vivian Center Seltzer

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780814740422

Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: March 2016

DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814740422.001.0001

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Dynamic Functional Interaction (DFI)

Dynamic Functional Interaction (DFI)

A Revisionist and Sequential Theoretical Model of Adolescent Psychological Development and Behavior

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Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy
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Vivian Center Seltzer

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NYU Press
DOI:10.18574/nyu/9780814740422.003.0003

This chapter describes Dynamic Functional Interaction (DFI), a revisionist and sequential theoretical model of adolescent psychological development and behavior. DFI theory explains common problems encountered by adolescents today. Its concepts account for the processes and dynamics of adolescent development. In the DFI model, problem behaviors are defensive actions that occur when the psychological growth tasks of adolescence become too difficult and painful. Practical applications of DFI frame the diagnostic model of defensive glitches, diagnostic protocols, and Peer Arena Lens group therapy. DFI also offers explanations for the functional purpose of most adolescent interactions and how adolescents pursue their quest to reach maturity and attain identity. This chapter also considers Sigmund Freud's structural theory and developmental theory and places adolescent comparison behavior within the theoretical context of adolescent development and behavior.

Keywords:   psychological development, Dynamic Functional Interaction, adolescents, adolescent development, problem behavior, adolescence, Sigmund Freud, structural theory, developmental theory, comparison behavior

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